"I did it...I made it!"
I spout the words as I step off the stage of my high school graduation, diploma in hand and a big grin plastered across my face. My mom smiled one of the biggest smiles I think I've seen in a long time and wrapped her arms around me in a tight hug.
"Yes, you did." there was a hint of bottled up emotion in her voice which only made me tear up with her and we simply held one another for a short second. I almost didn't, make it that is. Now here I was hugging my mom on perhaps one of the biggest achievements in my life so far.
And we were simply happy to be standing here.
Week 11 attempts to avoid the explicit--and I'm reading this saying to myself, 'What's the subtext?'
ReplyDeleteStrangely, it's the last line that salvages the piece, that offers a much longer perspective, offers a little mystery and forces us to reconsider everything we'd previously read.
So--yes!