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I don't know where to start. My 20 year HS reunion is coming up next June and for some reason I'm obsessed with revisiting my teenage and early 20's years. I find myself constantly thinking about old HS friends and listening to 80's music etc.
I really don't know what's causing all these feelings, I have a great wife,kids,nice house,decent job, good health. I lost my mother earlier this year, and I wonder if that combined with my upcoming reunion is causing me to want to reconnect with my past.
Is this just a sign that I'm growing older and moving ever so closer to my middle aged years?
I go through this periodically. It can be a bit depressing. I think sometimes I miss the freedom that comes with being young, and other times I just think I miss all the friends I've lost touch with.
I go through this periodically. It can be a bit depressing. I think sometimes I miss the freedom that comes with being young, and other times I just think I miss all the friends I've lost touch with.
Lucy
Bingo...I think you summed it up. You have to wonder is it worth trying to reconnect with old friends just to see how they are doing. I guess that's the purpose of HS reunions. I'm not sure about going to mine, It would probably be the same cliques from 1989. Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. I guess the only thing for me to do is to keep playing the 80's music on YouTube and hope this wave of nostalgia passes over like a bad head cold.
I disliked most of the people in my graduating class so much I didn't go to my 10-year reunion. I don't think we had a 15-year. Most of my friends were outside of my school anyway. Sometimes I wish I would've gone, though. I've seen some pictures of some of my classmates online, and I definitely aged better than them, lol!
I miss the music a lot, too. I listen to early 90s music all the time and the few groups that I was really into back then.
It'll pass, and if you're anything like me it'll come back in waves. I'm always having to remind myself that I can never go back so to snap out of it. Doesn't always work, though.
I disliked most of the people in my graduating class so much I didn't go to my 10-year reunion. I don't think we had a 15-year. Most of my friends were outside of my school anyway. Sometimes I wish I would've gone, though. I've seen some pictures of some of my classmates online, and I definitely aged better than them, lol!
I miss the music a lot, too. I listen to early 90s music all the time and the few groups that I was really into back then.
It'll pass, and if you're anything like me it'll come back in waves. I'm always having to remind myself that I can never go back so to snap out of it. Doesn't always work, though.
Lucy
I'm with you on the ten year reunion thing. I was still in my 20's and had not time or use for the HS cliques. Now that I've "grown up" and have a family and so forth, I have this nagging curiosity about how my classmates turned out. I think the one thing that occasionally bring me out of this funk is to think that in twenty years I will look back with even more nostalgia about how great it was to be 36. Nahh...I'll probably be still listening to Tears for Fears and INXS
I've never been to a reunion. Came close at #10. Tickets were purchased, but I got divorced and depressed at the same time. Moved away a few years later and have never looked back. Yeah, I still haul out the yearbook every once in a while. That's how I want to remember my classmates now. This may change, but it's been (cough) 37 yrs.
Probably. My mom always listened to the music she grew up on. Then she went through a midlife crisis and started watching BET and buying wrap CD's, lol! She's the whitest white person I know.
You know, sometimes I feel even MORE nostalgic and start listening to the music my mom always listened to growing up. Those are just happy memories, though. It's my teenage years I'm always wanting to revisit.
I'm with you on the ten year reunion thing. I was still in my 20's and had not time or use for the HS cliques. Now that I've "grown up" and have a family and so forth, I have this nagging curiosity about how my classmates turned out.
Ha, my 10 year is next year and I have no curiosity about my classmates. I'm still in touch with the ones i actually LIKED, and probably the rest of them are languishing in our dopey little town with 2 kids or more. Yeah, I don't want to see any of them.
Of all the reunions we've had, Ive gone to one but definately am going to the next one, its so great to see everyone again. Some have actually done something in their life, others have not, a few have died, but all n all its great.
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