I am graduating.

While these three words have yet to sink in on me, it is becoming very clear that they need to sink in now. This past weekend, I received my notice that I am eligible to take part in this year’s commencement ceremony here at Skyline. Well, I actually received a phone call from my mom who acted as if I had just received a Nobel Piece Prize.

Once I read the notice and registered for the ceremony, I felt it was a good time for me to reflect on what I have done and what I would do differently in the future. I then realized just how crazy this trip was here at Skyline and how amazingly difficult I made it on myself.

My first mistake occurred once I changed from a business major to a journalism major. For whatever reason, after high school I was focused on becoming some sort of businessman that wore a suit and tie seven days a week and brought home the big paychecks. As I was taking business classes and moved forward with that major, I realized that it wasn’t what I wanted to do. It’s a feeling that I personally can’t explain but, for whatever reason, this feeling hit me at the right time.

Once I joined the newspaper staff a few years back, it became clear that studying journalism was something I wanted to do. Simply because it seemed like the right thing to do. Two years later, I am editor in chief now. What a run.

I am not writing this to merely go on an on about myself and my journey to get here. My purpose for writing this is merely to advise you to follow your own journey and see where you wind up. There will be struggles along the way, your plans will change, times will be hard. But press on, because the light is always at the end of the tunnel.