Today is my 20 year HS reunion. It's a big deal and I wish I was at it. There are a number of people that will be at the reunion that I went to school with from kindergarten to 12th grade. I'd like to see some of them. Plus, I'm proud of where I'm at in life, what I've accomplished and what I'm currently working on.
A few years back I was talking with the Executive VP of the company I worked for and he mentioned that he had just gone to his 30th reunion. He said that he was really impressed with how happy and successful everyone turned out to be. Then, he realized that there was a reason for this. When you aren't happy or successful, you tend to not want to go to such things.
Do you think he's right?
I think that happiness and success can only be measured by the individual.
I wish I could have been there. I tell you one thing, everyone from the class of 1995 would be walking around with Hubski stickers in their pockets.
Have you ever been to a reunion? If so, what am I missing out on?
I have not been to any reunion and I have no contact with anyone from the old high school. There was a time when I really hated the people I interacted with during this time in my life, but now that I am older I realize that anger over stuff that children did and how they acted is misplaced. I have worked through that nonsense and realize now that the stuff that went down in high school means less than nothing in the general trajectory of life. I have no desire to revisit this time in my life, and honestly don't care about the lives of any of these people. Living well is the best revenge and all that.
My 10 year high school reunion is coming up sometime next year. I don't really talk to anyone from my old high school but I don't hate any of them either. I'll probably end up going just to see what is going on.
I haven't been to one and don't talk to anyone from high school. Maybe I don't feel happy or successful, or maybe I worry about my happiness or success being judged by my former classmates. I'm not entirely sure. Another reason I've ignored them is growing up in Wisconsin and especially rural Wisconsin, my assumption is the reunions all devolve into drunk fests. There was a time in my life where I might have enjoyed that, but that time passed within five years of graduating from high school. I assume it hasn't passed for too many of my former classmates, so I just avoid the whole thing. There's really only one person I'd care to catch up with, a long lost friend who was a year or two younger. Last I knew she got married, and even then we rarely talked. That was ten years ago.
I hear you. I said the same exact thing. I still see or keep in touch with everyone I want to, except, what I've realized is that there are a bunch of people that were only acquaintances or just kind-of friends that I'm actually interested in seeing again. But, I would agree that with most people, I could just pick up a phone and say, "hey."
I agree. It gives you a chance to meet up with people that you'd like to see again, but are no longer close enough to that a phone call is acceptable, or really have anything in common with except that you're going to the same reunion. Throughout the years you forget the people in-between your good friends and your "enemies", and I think those are the people that are interesting to meet at reunions.
I have been to 2. They were great. As i said below, it was mostly about: damn I wish I did this in high school. Good times.
Yeah... I'm married. But, I'm getting real-time texts from a pal that is at my reunion and isn't married, I'll call him kevinstep. -He's a bit of a man-whore. The texts are extremely amusing. I think he's going to pork the prom-queen. he's not going to pork her rusty.
Ahh I think I knew that. It is still fun listening to the man or woman whore stories. I am not married and all my married friends (boys and girls) love hearing about my adventures. (Except there have not been any lately sadly). It was nice going to my reunions. There were people there I had never spoken to before that turned out to be be cool people. Kinda cool to see things like that.