[ WP ] : Write about the happiest moment of somebody 's life . Make it absolutely heartbreaking .

His alarm sounds and he sits up mechanically. 
 
 He feels tired yet, he wants to just layback and not have to go today, but he's already assisted himself through this. A set of clothes lay at the foot of his bed, his hair has been cut to make bed head easy to manage specifically for this moment, and there is a prepared breakfast burrito with coffee pot already timed ten minutes before his alarm. His phone rings and it says'mom' on the ID, but he leaves it ring. 
 
 He is ready to finish his goal he promised today; a nice dress shirt, some pressed pants, shined shoes, and he was walking down his apartment hallway. He walks outside and almost slips on a ice patch, `` Mom is going to yell at my landlord, again.'' He steps into a small snow drift and some it clung to his pants. As he sits into his car, he clicks his heels together to get any loose snow out, so it does n't melt on his floor. In his passenger seat is his cap and gown, he has to be at the college in 30 minutes.'No problem', he thinks as warms up his engine. 
 
 `` Drinking, again?'' His buddy from class says as he walks up to him. `` It's alright, man. You'll do good today.'' 
 
 He gets into place and waits as they walk out to their seats. It takes a few minutes, but he just thinks about everything in the past several years as he gets to the metal folding chair they have set out for him while they go through the ceremony of accepting their degrees. He thinks about his parents, his dad's choices, his mom's choices, his siblings, his part in all of it, his old house, and finally the accident. By the time they called his name, he was already crying. He walks up to the stand and looks out at his peers, all 500 of them have earned their degrees today, and he looks out at their family and friends, hundreds of people sit out behind them watching them accept their awards for completion in various academic fields. He walks up, and shakes the hands of his professors and other faculty members that witnessed. As he walks down he sees some of his peers as they smile and nod towards him. 
 
 A older woman comes sauntering over to him before he sits and says, `` YOU DID IT!'' She smiles behind her spectacles. 
 
 `` Can I call you mom, today?'' He says with his eyes full of tears. She looks taken back, but smiles. 
 
 `` Of course!'' She wraps his arms around him. 
 
 `` It was hard, it was so hard!'' He says as he sobs into her shoulder, `` Thanks for helping me. Feeding me. Letting me into your home. I do n't know what I was doing, but I did it.'' 
 
 `` It's okay, you did it.'' She says as she places her hand behind his head. 
 
 They get outside and she invites him over to eat at their house, but he declines and says, `` Maybe I'll come by later''. He shakes his friend's hand and watches as his Mom for today leave for their dinner. He gets in, puts his cap and gown back into the passenger seat, and watches for a moment as everyone leaves. All of them with their supporting families, he can feel the jealousy creep in slightly. As the car starts and goes into gear, he thinks of were to eat and opens his phone, and he goes to the nearest liquor store. 
 
 A bottle of Johnny Walker's Blue Label sits open next to some Chinese take out in the living room coffee table; he sits in the kitchen with a picture and his degree out, he flips it open and close, just staring at it. 
 
 `` Is n't ironic that, you were an alcoholic and I am here drinking the day of my graduation?'' He says looking at the picture. `` I did it, I graduated today. Yet, I still wish you were here instead.'' 
 
 He opens his phone and dials one, it rings once and immediately goes to voicemail. A woman's voice comes on, `` Hey, I'm not able to come to the phone right now, leave a message. If this is one of my children, call home, your mother worries.'' 
 
 `` Hey mom,'' His lip quivers and his eyes tear up, he places his free hand over his face, `` I graduated today...''
