Every single graduation I've ever had, I was alone

Every graduation I've ever had, I spent alone.

Elementary school: my sister decided she wasn't coming because she wanted to stay home and watch cartoons. Like she literally BRAGGED about not going. So my parents ended up spending the whole time scolding her and just... left me to go by myself.

Middle school: my sister was retaking her college entrance exam (재수, basically a whole extra year of grinding because she bombed it the first time) and she'd failed to get into any university at all. So my parents were in a bad mood. Nobody came. And the thing is, they didn't even TELL me ahead of time they weren't coming. I just stood outside waiting for ten minutes. alone. and then gave up and took the bus home by myself.

And now it's high school graduation and I'm basically locked in to doing it solo again because of COVID. LMAO.

I don't have a single graduation memory to look back on. I'm carrying this to my grave, genuinely. If you asked me the saddest thing that's ever happened to me in my life, it's this. LMAO.