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i already wrote this once. but it didn't do my feelings justice. as usual, someone else wrote a song that does a better job expressing my thoughts than i can.

Marchin On - Onerepublic

for those days we felt like a mistake//those times love's what you hate//somehow we keep marchin on//for those nights when i couldn't be there//i've made it harder to know that you know//that somehow we'll keep moving on//there's so many wars we fought//there's so many things we're not//but with what we have i promise you that we're marching on//marching on//for all of the plans we've made//there isn't a flag i'd wave//don't care if we bend//i'd sink us to swim//we're marching on//for those doubts that swirl all around us//for those lives that tear at the seams//we know we're not what we've seen//for this dance we'll move with each other//there ain't no other step that one foot right in front of the other//there's so many wars we fought//there's so many things we're not//but with what we have i promise you that we're marching on//marching on//for all of the plans we've made//there isn't a flag i'd wave//don't care if we bend//i'd sink us to swim//we're marching on//right, right, right, right left right//marching on//we'll have the days we break//we'll have the scars to prove it//we'll have the bonds that we save//but we'll have the heart not to lose it//for all the times we stopped//for all the things i'm not//we put one foot in front of the other//we move like we ain't got no other//we go when we go, we're marching on

this song is the perfect anthem for the transition from one stage of life to another. i know many of us are in similar places. whether it's high school graduation, college graduation, finishing a master's. wherever you are, keep marching on.

peace.