Departure

Today I had the final class of the year with my current cohort of Visual Communication Design students for 2013. I always find this to be a very emotional time of the year. Partly because I'm completely exhausted, but mainly because I've never been good at saying 'goodbye'. After working with my students over the course of a year, I've seen them all quickly grow into a group of young adults, each with their own values, views on the way they see the world around them, and each with positive futures ahead of them. Today my one piece of advice before we parted was the following quote below. It's one that I remember seeing somewhere a long while ago, I can't remember where or when, but I've never forgotten it. Its a quote that I try to live by:

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