It's coming up next month. I'm totally not planning to go. I think I'd rather go shovel dog poo at the park.
I got an e-mail this morning about it. All the usual "cool and involved" people who were "cool and involved" back in High School are on the reunion committee. I guess people don't really change all that much, and I have no desire to confirm that fact in real life.
So, how do my blog readers feel about High School reunions? Have you been? Was it a waste of time and money?
I got an e-mail this morning about it. All the usual "cool and involved" people who were "cool and involved" back in High School are on the reunion committee. I guess people don't really change all that much, and I have no desire to confirm that fact in real life.
So, how do my blog readers feel about High School reunions? Have you been? Was it a waste of time and money?
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I went to my 5th reunion. No one had changed much.
I went to a picnic type reunion that got thrown together real quick. I discovered that, those girls who were stunningly beautiful in high school, are no longer. And those guys who were sob's then, still are. Jocks are still jocks. And cheerleaders are still cheerleaders.
Then I saw pictures from a 30th reunion and absolutely recognized no one. Someone captioned one of the pics with "It looks like a weight watchers meeting."
Those kinds of comments I could do without.
I'll stay home, thankyouverymuch.
It's not the "cool and involved" people who organized HHS' 10-year reunion, and NONE of that clique stuff happened. Everyone was on an equal level: people who didn't give me the time of day in high school were happy to see me, and people who were good friends didn't necessarily start it up again. Mostly both my reunions were just neat, fun, relaxed events with no drama or tension. It's a place to keep things light...you get out what you put into it. That said, if you know your aversion to the idea, trust your instincts and don't go.
However, I was in a small school where I knew everyone - and I think that makes a difference.
Rebecca
The thing is that several people from our class (graduated 1994) are now dead. One murdered, a few overdosed on drugs, one hit by a bus. In the year below ours, there were two recent suicides.
It makes things feel really different. I think it makes the silly high school stuff seem worse than silly - it makes us realise there are more important things in life than being cool and popular. Everyone has realised that by now, and I expect the reunion would be quite different to the old school days. Thankfully.
But it turned out: Nobody else had either! :) After all, we'd only been out of college six years at that point. I saw a lot of people I knew and had a lot of fun finding out what people were doing. And nobody looked very different.
And after going to your reunion, I highly recommend seeing Grosse Pointe Blank.