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I attended one (20th reunion) and had a good time but I didn't go to the 10,15,25th reunions. Facebook really takes the mystery out of what everyone has been up to!
A few things I saw:
1. Rich kids in high school suddenly have had mundane lives post graduation.
2. High School Linebackers are now fat, bald guys! High school cheerleaders are linebackers now!
3. A few "ugly ducklings" turned into beautiful adults.
We had a lot of nurses/teachers in our class, nobody turned out to be Bill Gates, Brad Pitt or Brett Farve!
Not sure why some folks want to keep putting a reunion on.....especially if you can still connect/be friends with classmates in everyday life
I attended one (20th reunion) and had a good time but I didn't go to the 10,15,25th reunions. Facebook really takes the mystery out of what everyone has been up to!
A few things I saw:
1. Rich kids in high school suddenly have had mundane lives post graduation.
2. High School Linebackers are now fat, bald guys! High school cheerleaders are linebackers now!
3. A few "ugly ducklings" turned into beautiful adults.
We had a lot of nurses/teachers in our class, nobody turned out to be Bill Gates, Brad Pitt or Brett Farve! Not sure why some folks want to keep putting a reunion on.....especially if you can still connect/be friends with classmates in everyday life
1. Facebook is not the same as actual face-to-face interaction. A lot of my female classmates post smarmy "inspirational" stuff on FB (just like they did with email 10 years ago, LOL!), or recipes. That's not a way to get to know someone.
2. Some of us live far away from where we went to HS. In my case, the steel crash of the 1970s/80s sent a lot of my classmates to greener pastures. They were the younger ones who were more likely to be laid off when the crash came. We have a lot of teachers, nurses and engineers, too. Some went back to school after the crash. I've heard the stories. Many of DH's classmates still live in Omaha. Many of them are doctors and lawyers.
Would I go? Yeah, with a machine gun and a couple of thousand rounds.
I went to my 10 year reunion some years back. A good percentage of the people had actually "grown up" a bit. A good many, however, had not. It was like the cafeteria or hallway back in high school. There were actually roving bands of the same thugs and bullies, in a fancy reception hall, wearing suits and ties and dresses. Of course, they'd all gained 50 lbs and lost a lot of hair, but it was the same cliques.
saw this being discussed on another forum , thought i would start it here , just wondering if suddenly you got a letter through the door asking you to go to a school reunion party in a weeks time , would you drop everything and go or would you say no?
saw this being discussed on another forum , thought i would start it here , just wondering if suddenly you got a letter through the door asking you to go to a school reunion party in a weeks time , would you drop everything and go or would you say no?
The only one that I would have considered was my 10th, but I lived across the country and couldn't afford it at the time. I wasn't a popular guy, so I rather feel like I wouldn't be able to talk about fun times/memories that I'm sure they'd be gaggling about. I noticed from pictures of the recent reunions that they sat with their previous cliques with perhaps a few venturing into different cliques. As a gay mex-American teen growing up in a southern town in the 1980s, I've never felt like I would be very comfortable at these reunions. I have seen of my former classmates throughout the years in passing, but don't have any friendships with them. I don't think that I'd go to any future reunions either.
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