It's all over

For so many years now I've been anxious to graduate. The long school days and piles of projects and homework seemed endless to me. On Thursday I graduated high school, and it surprised me how sad I was that it was over. It made me realize that a lot of the time we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone, even when in the moment it seems like a torturous experience we have to endure. Now that i'm finished, I have the rest of my life to look forward to. There are a lot of things I want to do, but I don't know if I'll have the time or patience to do it all. I might go to college, and if I do I'd want to major in Journalism. I want to go to Police Academy (yeah go ahead, laugh it up), to become an animal cop. I'm so confused as to what to do, but the good thing is I have the rest of my life to figure it out.