The night before Graduation I met up with my family at their hotel room to hang out after dinner and they decided to give me my Graduation gifts. Besides a beautiful pair of earrings from my parents, my Aunt and Uncle bought me a Kitchen Aid mixer.
Now, I understand that most people who receive Kitchen Aid mixers are getting married, but as that’s not happening for many years, and I’ve always had a love for baking, the mixer was a great gift. Now I can mix up chocolate chip cookies, mash potatoes and knead pretzel dough like the best of ’em.
The thing my family didn’t know was that I’ve ALWAYS felt that you become a real person when you get a Kitchen Aid mixer. If this sounds crazy, let me explain.
A REAL person is one with their wits about themselves who has established a place in the world. She is smart, but understands she has much more to learn. She has passed the first stage of her life where other people figure out things for her. She makes her own decisions. You see, the strangest part about graduating college isn’t the friends you’ll miss hanging out with, or the classes you stop taking, but the fact that your life is no longer blocked out in four year increments where you have a set plan, requirements, and a list of to-do’s. A real person knows what to do next (at least until the “next step” changes again).
If this STILL sounds crazy (which I don’t doubt) just know that Graduation for me was more than just finishing school. I became a REAL person, complete with a Kitchen Aid mixer.