Biggest, most important high school reunion (college, major, best, attend)
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Important? I doubt that any of them are important. I only went to my 30th and that was fun. I understand that the early ones are the worst when people are still caught up in old HS BS and trying to impress people with how good they look, how successful they are, etc. At my 30th we mostly talked about kids, jobs, travels, old classmates. Only a few people seemed to come with a strange "look at me!" mindset.
If you're into that sort of thing, I would think all of them would be important. We don't know if we're going to be here for the "next" one, do we?
I've never had any desire to attend, but I do have one friend from h.s. - just spoke with her this afternoon. We chat a few times a year and since she lives in the old neighborhood, she catches me up on how many of our classmates have passed away.
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graduated in a small class~had 48 graduating seniors. went to my 25th, did kind of enjoy myself but really felt out of place. Went to the 45th, a lot of people reminded me of all the good times we had going here and doing that, places I never went. Did have a couple of people tell me they remembered me being different somehow. They actually remembered me closer to what I was. Guess being 5'2" and less than 90 lbs as a junior in school was different than the 6'1" and over 210 I was than. Didn't care to go to the 50th because there would only be about 3 people I'd care to see~ 2 are dead and the other was not going to be there.
If you're into that sort of thing, I would think all of them would be important. We don't know if we're going to be here for the "next" one, do we?
I've never had any desire to attend, but I do have one friend from h.s. - just spoke with her this afternoon. We chat a few times a year and since she lives in the old neighborhood, she catches me up on how many of our classmates have passed away.
So strange... You've never had a desire to attend, but, you have an opinion about the rest of us who have attended reunions and what our reasons should be for attending. Don't you think that's hilarious? Seriously...
I've been to all of mine (7 total~every five years), and chaired the planning or been a part of the planning of half of them. I like them, but I no longer live in the town, so I enjoy seeing the people from that era of my life. It's a one night deja vu and then good bye until we meet again. Many of us are on facebook, and others have reconnected because of facebook, so it's all good from my point of view. We were a class of 700+ and most of us left the state to go to college and never returned, so those are the people who seem to come back for the majority of the reunions. I love reconnecting with former neighbors (there were 4 of us on our street that graduated together), and there always seems to be a good mix of people to talk to and make small talk.
The strangest one was the 5 year. There seemed to be the biggest gap at that one, because many about half of the people had married (or were engaged)and several were starting families, and then there were others (myself included) who were in graduate school and still very much in the college/summers off/part time jobs/chasing men/group vacations mindset/mode.
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