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My Education has ended.

I woke up with a smile today, an unsettling one however.

Today was the day I submitted my Master's Thesis.

A weird calm swept over me, similar to a relief one encounters after a break up.

Like one of those break ups where, after a long and dramatic, yet passionate relationship comes finally to an end.

I walked over to my guide today proudly, clutching my Black leather bound thesis.

My name, along with other essential detail shone in gold atop the front cover.

It gleamed in the sunlight.

In my hand I held an object that had been the result/output of my struggle and hard work from over the last six months.

To others it was only a dissertation. For me it was so much more.

Not only because I had been proud of the effort and time I had put in, to get the results that I had reaped today, but also because today that dissertation was symbolic for my academic career to finally having taken a bow.

I look back and wonder with powerful nostalgia, all the events that brought me to this day.

I strangely feel numb and happy at the same time.

May be I am just a proud student today.

My hard work was appreciated, my struggle- recognized

I've had my ups and downs in the academic path, But what matters to me

What really matters is that I finished on the highest note.

I loved my education.

I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I appreciate all that I've learn't.

I will use it to the best of my ability, to be all that I can be.

Not only professionally, but also personally.

You see education is not just a medium to help us get a job or set us on our career path,

It is about being aware. It is about knowing. It is about respecting.

It is so that we are not ignorant. It is so we can be good people.

Smart people.

My education may have ended...

Actually wait scratch that......My education hasn't ended... my academic career has.

My learning will be continued....

Life is all about learning.

Life is an education....

I started this whole post wrong....

It hasn't ended..

It will never end :)