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In the movies High School Reunions are depicted as Prom 10 years later. A HUGE event where everybody in school reunites, with the Quarterback now a loser, the ugly ducking now beautiful, the bullied nerd is now mega rich, the hottest girl has 10 kids and looks ragged etc.
My HS reunion was last year but I didn't go because I already keep in touch with the people I was close with and I see my other classmates on Facebook. Looking at the pics from mine, the year before, and this year the 10 year reunions are measly meetups. They all just meet up at a bar and go to the High School homecoming game. The only people that show up are the ones that still live in the area and enjoyed high school.
I'm just wondering has anybodys 10 Year High School Reunion play out like it does in movies?
Pretty much everyone I want to stay in contact with from high school, I do on facebook. There are some big turnarounds, mostly with people getting quite fat, unloading kids at a ridiculous pace, or divorced.
Yup, mine was fairly similar in many ways. It was over a weekend with a bunch of events. A football game. A dinner. A trip to a bar for the after party.
I moved away a few weeks after graduation across the country. My family left too, so my ties to the area were weak ties. I left and basically lost touch with everyone from high school. I saw one of my friends about 4 years after. I saw another guy from high school randomly walking around my college (he went to a college on the other side of the country, and he happened to be on my campus for some research).
I went with a friend that I had recently reconnected with at the time. She wasn't planning to go, but I convinced her.
I wasn't "popular." More of a "geek" but well known, I knew pretty much everyone in my school and was well-liked.
The people who stayed in town were married with kids, some to their high school sweethearts.
There were other people that moved away, went away for college and they were on a completely different life path than the ones who stuck around.
The surprises: let's the guy who went to cooking school supposedly became a gay porn star (I had to tell my mom that one, since she always thought he was cute!). One person I don't recall interacting with, "apologized" for being evil during high school.
The good looking popular guy who was an athlete/glee club who everyone had a crush on "improved" and went to John Hopkins for med school. So now he is pretty much "perfect;" he is a tall, handsome blond doctor. Haha.
10 year was fun. Saw my old friends. 20 year was fun. Saw a different group of old friends. Most of my friends are scattered far and wide around the country, so we don't get the chance to reconnect much. Most everyone pretty much turned out like they were in high school. I was in the top tier of students in a top tier school, as were my friends, so most of us came out OK. The people who didn't, were already showing signs of failure in high school. One of my grade school friends kind of started slipping in high school, and continued slipping afterwards, but we had already distanced ourselves from each other at that point. I think he continued to slip after that; nobody even knows what happened to him.
One interesting thing that I noticed was that there were some people who never left after high school, and are still hanging out with each other like it's 1992. I'm not saying that's bad, because they obviously are OK with that. It was just weird. I expected some of that at 10 years, but at 20 years, I figured that would be over. It's not.
I'm just wondering has anybodys 10 Year High School Reunion play out like it does in movies?
No 10 year. 2200 miles away and not worth the airfare. I have heard, though, that all the smoke and mirrors are in evidence at the 10-year reunion.
Yes to 20 year. Was flying out of LAX the next day on vacation, so I went the night before. Our high school was very splintered, albeit small, with blond beach types, and blacks and Mexicans from marginal areas, and everything in between. Except for a very small few who went to good schools and applied themselves, our graduating class, and adjacent ones, were intellectually very pedestrian.
Reunion: a borderline nightmare, but it provided "closure" of sorts. The cliques were fully intact. Nobody had gotten worse. The people who looked good then still looked good. The people who did not look so great then, now did. The people who were in the popular cliques then still kept to themselves. The people who just went to school, because that's what you're supposed to do, and did not make statements then, were very cordial, for the most part.
I got on an Air France 747 the next day more interested in that, was glad I got to see the reunion, and vowed never to go to another one. In fact, that was the last reunion because they couldn't garner the interest level after that. I'm not on their contact list, nor am I a FB friend of the school.
Last edited by robertpolyglot; 09-24-2012 at 06:36 PM..
Haven't gone to one yet. Don't intend to. Since I graduated I've usually been 2,000-7,000 miles away. Now I'm retired a mere 615 miles away and my 50th reunion is coming up in 2014. Not going to that one either. Have no desire to.
My wife attended her 10th and was somewhat underwhelmed. About five years after we married there was her 35th. She talked me into taking her since we lived right there. She said that nobody had really changed, just gotten older. Everyone watched us when the dancing started because she was known for her ability in high school and then danced professionally for several years. We "obliged" them, danced two or three dances and made our escape. We did not bother to attend the breakfast the next morning and I told her I would not subject myself to one of mine, ever.
My ten year reunion was a fun time. None of the cliques we had in school were around anymore.
That's very unusual. What caused them to disband? Small school? Relocations?
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