While at my graduating ceremony on Monday, I thought back to my last Sunday Paper Club post and felt I was a little too harsh. I didn't know why I had this feeling, we are a very dark class, but while looking up at an airplane which happened to be flying many feet above us, I knew I needed to revisit the character of my class.
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A graduation is a reflection of the class; everything that the class as a whole holds dearly is presenting during this ceremony. We had speeches which consisted of the message of honesty and relaxation, but it is this song that was sung at my graduation which makes me believe my class could be the one's who leads humanity to all the goals it wants to achieve.
I think this song really reflects my class. The reason my class is so dark is "we've been looking for a song to sing - search for a melody - searched for someone to lead". That's why I think when we get boots on the moon, you'll see this nation's young repay that investment 100 times over. Right now, we don't really have a mission, this generation or this nation.
But, I also think we are at a fork in the road. One of my teachers said that senioritis was inevitable, yet didn't see that. I saw the same, if not better, work out of my classmates. I believe my and my class mates are more self motivated then any other generation. But, we could also complete the same mission by receiving a purpose from a outside force. I also found it interesting that the line "The future started yesterday and we're already late" was in the song. The vision given by futurists should have been accomplished. We are well into the space age and, yet, it still feels like the post-industrial age.
While looking up this song for this blog post, I also read the comments on this youtube video and I found that this song was chosen for many other high school graduations. So, my character of my class is not the character of my class, but the character of my generation. This is why we will be the generation who will have space habitations, who will solve hunger and every other social problem and who will inspire this world.
We're the generation
We can't afford to wait
The future started yesterday and we're already late
This might not be my best post, I'm sure every generation came out of high school like this. But, it's interesting that we selected this song and this song can be applied so well to space habitation. A question to my experienced readership: what was the song at your graduation? Why do you think your generation did not achieve space habitation?
