Decisions

I told my parents that I’m going to decline attending my graduation ceremony. I think it’s a huge waste of time and I don’t need the pat on the back in regards to such a trivial accomplishment. They are absolutely livid.

College has been the most expensive mistake I have ever made in my life. At the time of my enrollment I didn’t know what I wanted to really do. I was brainwashed into thinking that I wanted to go to DePaul for a business degree followed up by law school. (HA!)

About a year into it I realized I hated all of that bullshit. I still didn’t know what I wanted to do in life but I knew I never wanted to work some desk job and I didn’t want to do a job that I didn’t love.

A year of soul searching and I realized that my “childish” dream to act or sing may not be so stupid. Money has never been important to me. I could do this. I have no inclination to be famous, so it’s not like I have some lofty expectations. The problem is that I can’t sing very well, so acting it is.

Fast forward to now. I will graduate college in March, with a degree in psychology and a second degree in communications in hand. 5 years after I started this excruciatingly long and worthless journey I am finishing it.

The thought of walking during graduation seems like a last spit in the face. I only stayed in college as a final thank you to my parents, for all of the things I’ve put them through in my childhood. But for me to go listen to some asshole talk for two hours before getting a $100,000 piece of paper that I would have been much better without… it just seems painful. I rather just forget that I wasted 5 years of my life and move on.