October 2008 Weddings
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what would you think...
Say you went to a special ceremony for a graduating class...think a ceremony like a baccalaureate commending the graduating class for their acheivements. The ceremony is beautiful; you even tear up in some places. Now picture the class filing out at the end of the ceremony. All of sudden, the class erupts into a flash mob dance. Acceptable? Inacceptable? Funny? Dumb? Yes? No?
Re: what would you think...
I would think that is must be nice to still be so young and to think that this day is all that important in the scheme of things that to plan some sort of outrageous event seems appropriate, and that they'll look back on it in 20 years and realize that it was not so important and that was kind of drwaing attention to the wrong thing.
That said, I would also think that many people have had some very boring graduation ceremonies and speakers, and, either way, it's a few hours out of your life you'll never get back, and if it happened to be more interesting and entertaining than it could have been otherwise, no harm done.
A graduation ceremony is literally that: ceremonial. Nothing changes because you participated in that day, and nothing changes if you didn't. The earning of the degree is in the months and years prior. Nothing happened in that one day to change that.So, whether there's a flash mob or a super boring speaker, it's all the same. One morning out of your life, no harm, no foul.
We are strongly considering doing it after our nursing candlelighting ceremony (not at the actual graduation that consists of the entire school). We saw the Oprah "I've Got a Feelin" flash mob and lovvvved it, and someone mentioned doing something similar...an instructor, actually. haha! Our class ranges from 19 year olds to 60 year olds. I think it would be awesome.
I've always wanted to participate in one, so I'm pretty excited about it. Part of me can't shake the fact that we've worked so hard to get to this point and this is meant to be ceremonial and traditional, plus the fact that the dean and head of the nursing department will be there. I'm torn on whether to participate or not. It's going to go on with or without me, though, ya know?
I was just wondering what you as an audience-member would think.
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