A person’s words are better heard after they are gone and in this case Marina Keegan seems to be yet another example. In Keegan’s essay, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” she expresses her views on growing up graduating, and moving on in her life after Yale. Marina Keegan was a young, vibrate, twenty- two year old who had a passion for life and was apprehensive about leaving the security of her life at Yale. Keegan relates to her readers by reminiscing on memories, her undecided future, and how fast life can go by. Keegan places an importance on how people should live life to the fullest, give themselves a break and that it is never too late to clean the slate. Life is not slowing down to enjoy the view but it does not mean you do not have the option yourself. …show more content…
Having such a close knitted environment, she spent time doing other things besides academics. Keegan began to learn about herself and briefly mentions a time when she personally felt safe at yale. Keegan gives her audience that sense of togetherness by reminding the graduating class how, ” We’re all in this together 2012” (4). College is similar to life by how it is about discovering and experiencing things first hand. Soon enough we will be all be moving away or going off to colleges, but for now I will appreciate the dusty old high school textbooks and the seeing of old friends in the halls. The chilling fall winds at a home football game. The very last day of high school. The bounty of people I have become friends with throughout the years. The time you are forced to be stuck in a classroom with strangers becomes the time you want to spend time in those classrooms with friends. As high school graduation inches closer and closer, Keegan’s essay becomes more sentimental to me. Like Keegan said, “We’re so young”