The Happiness I Feel at Your Achievements

May 25, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week in honor of the many college graduations taking place this month is graduation.

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A graduation poem for two friends, both graduating, who share their pride and pleasure:

The happiness I feel at your achievements

Reflects the happiness you feel at mine.

Friends expand the pleasure of such moments,

As mine in yours, and yours in mine, combine.

The same when we look forward to our futures:

So much more unfolds when there are two!

Populating your proposed adventures

Gives me a joy that mine must give to you.

We've been through much, and will be through much more,

But traveling together is more fun.

Whatever life and love may have in store,

Two is always preferable to one.

Your graduation thus becomes for me

Far more sweet than mine alone would be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

5/21: Congratulations on Your Doctorate

5/22: Graduates Are People with Degrees

5/23: Happiness Does Not Depend on Weather

5/24: How Many Times You Almost Lost Your Way

5/25: The Happiness I Feel at Your Achievements