how do you feel if your parents did not attend to your graduation?

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it may not happen to you but i just need your comment and idea if in case you are in into this situation. i have a friend who graduated last march and when we see each other recently and congratulated him for graduating, suddenly in a joking way he replied "thank you and said but i was alone during my graduation, i have no parents with me". i said to him "why" you haven't told them to come? and he said there's no need for them to come" (his parents are separated and he is the financing his studies) given to that situation how do you feel marching alone while your other classmates are with their parents? how are you going to handle the situation?