And I think, that maybe we aren't scared of the thought of failure, but the thought of leaving behind everything that's brought us to this point in our lives. Maybe the heart-wrenching pain, felt in our hearts and in our minds, and that lump in our throats is the result of realizing that after 12 years, 2160 days, we finally have to let go. We have to let go of the people who we've been with our whole lives, the people who know us better than anyone else ever will, the people who know us better than we know ourselves, the people who have been there with us from the beginning and the people who have gone through every bump in the road along the way. This feeling is the end of the beginning, the end of everything we have known, all we've been accustomed to for so long. And this means leaving everything familiar behind. It's letting go of the past and saying hello to the rest of our lives. This feeling we have is scared. We're scared to death that nothing else will ever be the same again, scared that as soon as we walk off that stage, holding the peice of paper we had been dying to get for so long, everything will change. For all our lives, this moment is what we have been looking forward to. Our whole lives has been in preperation for this day, this moment, when we'd go from students to being alumni and experiencing real life. We've endured all those years of wanting it to be over, but now that the time is here, we've become statues. Now we don't want to leave the comfort zone we've called home for so many years, but it's time that we do. It's time that we go out and experience everything for ourselves. This is the end of the beginning.