Southeastern Oklahoma State University - Savage Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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 ust a few years ayo} 9 stood with my friends and received my hiyh sc (too f diploma 1st fore hun- dreds of misty-eyed parents and yot w hat we ail It new was a sure Hebet to freedom. We accepted that diploma as if it were the d the world and it was yuerea me worm ana it was mine £iyht een years had yiven me the wisdom and maturity to know J) miyht possibly need more information to reac k tk ose faraway stars. South- eastern Oklahoma Estate University was probably

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(jrinJ bey an again — yelling oat of bed, foing to class, writing a theme, SiL ou ykt iltal tk is wou so different than it was when 3 watched the cfoch for recess. „4 (though 3 slid h are many answers, 3 am not as independent as 3 thought. Friday is close at hand and when it comes can go home. Won, and Jbad and all the family will be sitting on the front porch wailing. 3k are a feeling this highway is going to be traveled a lot in A, Mi J U J'fft now all the trees, rochs, bridges and lahes on the way. flo one warned me that thi ngs would be (the this: 3hat sometimes this h ind of ideas would fust net'er worh or even exi 'it. 4nd 3 thought 3 hnew it all hiiayhe if 3 tube stoch, open my eyes, 3'if i • • 77 . ...t 3t Seems the wor iJJU conquered bac Lk ome is far away, and now an overnight bag stays pached to go down that highway with me at the drop of a u views on home are changing: it used to be the place where 3 lived, but now it S the place 3 going la. sag that home is where ike k earl tongs to be . . . f rhapS that mag be true after all — or as Idoberl 3rost Said Jlome is the place where when you have to go there, they h ave to tahe you in. Ml day long, 3 See and lath to no one but the Same people day in and dug out. 9}]y habits may have changed but 3 still have habits. 3ke mold is har d to b re ah, and 3 don t even hnow •fj shou Id try to b reah it. 3t is a comfort- able rut, and 3 am protected happy and growing. 3h is rut has become my world that 3 five in, and 3 am malting my own tittle Isolati on booth from the outside. 3 am here to grow and learn how to cope. I3ut 3 get so involved with SSoutheastern that 3 tend to forget other placeJ, other thi ngs, and other people. 3hose stars indeed Seem farther away th 3our years of Security. 3our years of I and experiencing. 3our years of time out of my fife — my young fife. Jnd hat h ave 3 learned. 3 thought that 3 had earned freedom. Vo one can stop me now, 3 had Said. 3 tooh four years to get additional ammunition, and hoy, am 3 glad. 3 hnow now that freedom is what will never be handed to me on a si (ver platter. 3 h ave to earn it. 3I doesn t fust happen, you have to pay for it with responsible actions. With what 3 h ave learned 3 realize that wisdom — true wisdom — is an unattainable goaf iul must strihe on to it as a goal. Soon 3 must move on. Southeastern has gotten me prepared for my future. 43ut what directi 3 tahe? What will 3 do? 3 thinh 3 h now this time. an ever, of learning on w(i