Mount Isa Junior Mayor and Youth Parliament representative Justice King explains how she feels graduating high school. Is she suddenly wiser, older, more experienced? Not necessarily, Ms King says.
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I am a graduate of 2015. How does it feel? To be quite frank, pretty much like any other day.
But, I must not lie; what an amazing feeling it is, to hear my younger siblings quietly bustle about the house preparing themselves for a day in places that I, not too long ago (literally... like a week ago), eagerly counted down my last days within.
Now, I wish I could write about an astonishing epiphany that engrossed me as I walked across the Civic Centre stage for the last time. However, that didn’t quite happen.
One might suggest I was too busy searching for my loved ones in the blinding glare of the stage lights or perhaps, my brain hadn’t (and still hasn’t) quite registered my ‘situation’ just of yet or – if you were at the Spinifex Investiture of Friday morning – maybe I was far too busy trying to gather the pieces of my dignity that I dropped, after taking a little spill during my performance, earlier; but none-the-less, graduating is an amazing experience.
Can I say I am wiser? No. Can I say I have changed? Perhaps… but not really!
Can I say I am more of an adult? Well, if I thought that people would mature as soon as they were handed that certificate; I’d have been handing pieces of paper out a long time ago!
I mean, we all know that no one really ‘grows up’, we all merely learn how to act in public.
If there is, however; anything that I can say about my senior years, it is that, it was fun (in an educational sort of way of course).
We are all authors of our lives and I am proud to declare that chapter one “high school” has officially drawn to a close and now, I am busy writing the beginnings of chapter two, “Life”. University, great adventures and the makings of amazing memories are promised in the coming pages.
Well, if I thought that people would mature as soon as they were handed that certificate; I’d have been handing pieces of paper out a long time ago!"
- Justice King
A massive thank you to everyone who has helped me to where I am today.
A special thanks to my teachers, my mentors, my friends, my family and of course, my amazing parents David and Helen King.