Bittersweet - is it a coachable emotion?

High school graduation.

I knew it was coming, was on the way, but now that it’s right here, at my doorstep I don’t want to acknowledge it, at least not yet.

Wasn’t it just yesterday that I participated in his graduation? Wearing the traditional Mortarboard hat and holding his “diploma” in his hand, I was busy taking photographs of my beautiful boy who beamed at us, delighted with all the fanfare and attention being showered upon him on his last day at kindergarten school.

Changing five schools in a short span of eight years as we moved countries, my son graduated from his Primary school in Hong Kong. Another big ceremony as we celebrated the move from Primary to Secondary school which incidentally happened to be just down the road.

We missed the next real graduation from Middle to High school due to covid, and only got to watch it LIVE as my masked boy was presented his IGCSE certificate, as we cheered for him through the screen sitting at home. It was disappointing but did not matter much as he was technically going to be in the same school.

But now this graduation from High School is going to be different, very different.

I tried coaching myself. What does “graduation” mean to you?

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