thankful
I don't usually do a "what I'm thankful for" post, but... I recently choose to skip a high school reunion, and choose to not send a response to a related questionnaire (they were asking for things like favorite teacher, class, memory, etc). After the reunion, they e-mailed some stuff: a slideshow of pictures from when we were in high school and another of pictures from the reunion, video taken at the prom*, and a compilation of questionnaire responses.
Today I watched the slideshows, read the questionnaire stuff and very briefly looked at the video, and all of it reinforced my decision to skip the reunion and not participate otherwise. Some of those people were interesting to me then, and some would probably be interesting to me now (and there would probably be a lot of overlap), but I didn't keep in touch with anyone from high school and my life is fine without them. (I do have a bunch of close friends from back then, but none of them went to the same high school as I did.)
So today I'm thankful for choosing not to go be social at the reunion, and for all the people I do choose to be social with.
* The school did not have an prom, did not approve of such things, etc, but a bunch of my classmates decided they wanted one, so they arranged for it not at the school and without any school permission/involvement. I wasn't interested and didn't go, and from what little I watched of the video I'm rather glad.
Today I watched the slideshows, read the questionnaire stuff and very briefly looked at the video, and all of it reinforced my decision to skip the reunion and not participate otherwise. Some of those people were interesting to me then, and some would probably be interesting to me now (and there would probably be a lot of overlap), but I didn't keep in touch with anyone from high school and my life is fine without them. (I do have a bunch of close friends from back then, but none of them went to the same high school as I did.)
So today I'm thankful for choosing not to go be social at the reunion, and for all the people I do choose to be social with.
* The school did not have an prom, did not approve of such things, etc, but a bunch of my classmates decided they wanted one, so they arranged for it not at the school and without any school permission/involvement. I wasn't interested and didn't go, and from what little I watched of the video I'm rather glad.