Added: 02/16/2006 |
Graduation gift ideas - for those who are getting olderI remember my graduation. I was a straight A's student and during all those years in college I was a professors' favorite. Besides, I spent so much time with my friends, partying and having fun. I dated the most handsome and cleverest guys and our hen-nights were the most cheerful and brilliant. But still I was the only girl who did not cry at the graduation ceremony. Even though, you see, I had a strong reason to cry. Each girl was crying, every one felt blue, but not me. People felt sad that they had to say good bye to their youth and become an adult, and look for a job. They probably had to part with their families and friends and begin their new lives in other cities or states without having their friends and relatives nearby. Please, do not think that I was so dull not to understand it, but I did not feel so bad about everything. The reason was in my parents. Actually, I believe they remembered that awful graduation feelings and did their best not to let me feel the same. And they succeeded. I was the happiest person on the whole graduation ceremony and party as well. My parents had brilliant graduation gift ideas. And among those they chose the perfect one. Their college graduation gift ideas were to present me money, a new car, and even my own flat. But they chose to do it presenting me a globe. Yes, you have understood it correctly. The best of my parents' graduation gift ideas was to give me a little copy of our planet. And they told me that college graduation is a significant moment because now I had everything that a person needed to explore life on her or his own. They told me that I held the whole globe in my hands and I needed only to decide what I need and soon I would be able to get it. And they told me so many cheerful things that I really had no reason to feel blue.
I hope you see from my story how important your college graduation gift ideas are. Bachlorette gift ideas should not be always expensive (I believe my parents did not spend more then twenty dollars on my present), but they sure presented the right words and feelings.
Surely, graduation gift ideas include something very useful, like cars, flats, or other things, but maybe it is better to think hard and present something that will make your graduate take a challenge, take a risk and be active all of his or her life. Among the best graduation gift ideas there is an interesting one as well. Parents of a graduate boy presented him a thick book with the title "Happiness." It looked like a very old and very serious book, but when he opened it, ready to get to know everything about happiness, he saw, that there was nothing in the book, blank pages with only three lines, written in his father's handwriting: "Dear son, we present you this book of happiness. You see, there is nothing in the book. We wish you to find your own happiness, work on it and live with it for a long time, so long that even this book will not be enough to describe it." Is not it great? Just switch on your imagination and a present will not be the one we usually put on shelves to clean it from dust for years, but the present that will provoke a person for great deeds all of his or her life.
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