Sarah Lyne U Markham - Leeward CC Commencement Ceremony 2023 Graduate

Another chapter blossoms

First off, I would love to thank my family, friends, and professors for always supporting me and helping me along in my journey. Despite my ups and downs in life, I'm glad I went through them because I wouldn't be the person I am today. A professor once told me "To become a butterfly, metamorphosis is necessary. If the caterpillar never went through this process of change, it would never achieve its great destiny and become its most glorious self. We can reach our great destinies by changing what needs to be changed." To this day every time I see a butterfly, I will always see it as a positive sign and that someone is watching over me to keep going. One day, when the time comes people are going to see, the most beautiful butterfly I can become in life.