Page 12 - The Regent Digest (Special 2024 Graduation Edition)

My boarding table members on table 4: Ali- So take this moment now as for now we are any-
yu, Khadeeja, Aisha, Bashir Bukar, and Ahmed. thing we choose to be because right now these
Thank you all for the memories and new expe- moments are not stories, this is happening, this
riences. is the moment you realise you are not a sad
story, you are alive, that moment when you look

To the class of 2024 we did it, were finally done around you and see all the people and things
no more unnecessary arguments, no more Mr that you love, and everything life has to offer,
Onakoya dancing in business class, no more when you realise that you are finally free, and for
running from Mr Akinola in the hallways, no just that moment. WE ARE INFINITE.
more debating with Mr Ageh on the state of Ni-
geria’s economy, no more Ms Amaka asking us
WE
the never-ending question “is something wrong
with you”, no more.

Now what is meant to be a happy goodbye feels
less cheerful as we also realise that means we
may not see each other again so it’s also no ARE
more seeing your best friend, no more having
that one person you told everything to and the
worst of it all no more feeling a sense of belong- INFINITE.
ing in one place anymore, as you then have to

adjust to new surroundings and get new friends
and experience new things which all sound very
fun, so let me be the first to say it I’m scared
and I’m sure some of you are too, because this
time your thrown into the world all alone with no
guidance to find yourself all over again, realising
that you are yet to change again into someone
you may not recognise either for better or worse,
but I tell you not to worry because at the end of

the day everything is gonna be alright.

As you go on there are people who will forget
about these moments and forget what it’s like to
be sixteen, and one day these will all be stories
and our pictures will become old photographs
and we become somebody’s mum or dad.

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