I was cleaning up my drawers and I came across my keepsake box from junior high school and of course I pulled out the crinkled notes, old photos, celebrity cut-outs, etc., laid them all out like so, and snapped a photo.
Remember when we were 13 and graduating from Grade 8 and singing and crying to Graduation by Vitamin C? Remember how we memorized the whole song and thought how amazing it was that someone out there wrote the perfect song, just for us, on our graduation day? What I’d do to go back to that very moment and freeze time. Everything was perfect in that universe. Nothing has topped Grade 8. In junior high, you are old enough to appreciate life and old enough to create memories and old enough to remember them, but still young enough to be carefree.
My favourite lyric now is in Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know; the line that sings “Oh simple thing, where have you gone?” because life is getting more complicated every day.
Anyway, I thought that Vitamin C’s Graduation should accompany this post because when I reminisce about junior high, this song plays in my head like a broken record. Lyrically, the song is most appropriate for high school graduation at 17, but we rocked it at 13. No biggie.
