Graduation Day

I graduate tomorrow. It feels surreal and amazing that I've actually achieved this incredible thing - an Honours degree. And although there are a bunch of people that I couldn't have made it here without, really there's only one person who achieved this: me. I'm the one who took 7 years to do a 4 year degree. I'm the one who repeated topics that drove me crazy the first time round, the one who studied for exams that made no sense to me, who sat through hours of lectures that put me to sleep. I'm the one who got up at 6 every morning last year, who was home only to sleep, who worked through every weekend. I'm the one who sat at my computer for so many hours that my eyes felt glued open and neglected my family and friends and my own health in order to succeed. I worked harder than I thought possible, learnt to do so many things I never thought I'd be able to, and made it to a mountaintop I thought never to reach. I did that. Me. Now that it's over I forget how hard it was, every single day, to keep working. I forget how much I proved to myself through that time. But the truth is that it is an amazing achievement. And I am amazed and so proud of myself for getting here. And I want to write this so I will never forget it, so I can keep returning to this blog and reading it and remembering that despite all my belief to the contrary, I might just be an amazing person after all.