When Spring arrives and finally dismisses the damp misery of winter there’s a great sense of potential and a promise of better things. This is reflected in the annual ritual of graduation that overwhelms half the nation a few weeks later.
With a level of pomp and pageantry way beyond the scale of the achievement, teenagers enable an orgy of back-slapping for merely finishing high school. And you’d better bring gifts. Today, they’d expect a new iPad rather than something sane and enduring like charm bracelets.
Personally, I think the whole scene’s bizarre, thinly veiled greed. Yet there’s no such indulgence when those same kids leave college…Why is that?
