Comments | carrie_leigh: Twenty Year High School Reunion

carrie_leigh

Twenty Year High School Reunion

Jun 08, 2011 22:58

For me, the title of this post may as well be another phrase for "Weekend Involving Self-Torture and Mental Anguish."

Alright, maybe that's a little dramatic. It is an occupational hazard, after all ( Read more... )

i'm old, reunion

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jessicakmalfoy June 9 2011, 04:09:30 UTC

to be honestly, high school reunions seem kinda pointless now that we all have facebook. i'm sure they were just invented to torture people. i didn't go to my 10 year because i was graduating from college on the same day. i have no desire to go to my 20 year either. why bother? all 68 people are on my FB. okay, not really, but it feels like it.

rose_in_texas June 9 2011, 04:16:37 UTC

I did not go to my 20-year reunion. I've lived a full and interesting life without those people and do not need their approbation.

On the other hand, the temptation to go and see what they're up to is ... tempting.

If only there were some way to go and watch those people without having to interact with them....

jandjsalmon June 9 2011, 05:05:19 UTC

My super-lame sister in law decided to get married two weeks AFTER my 10 year so I got to choose to go to the wedding or the reunion and the wedding won (by a TINY margin) - so I was DEPRESSED to miss mine. I am SUPER excited to get to go to my 20th some day.... but then I'm a bit like Nolan I think.

I hope you have a good time, Carrie. And I really hope that the asshat who put paint on your car isn't there... or grew up to have warts on his face or something.

dream_mancer June 9 2011, 05:23:37 UTC

My class was the last graduating class of our school before it merged with another one that 98% of my class jumped ship from when the new school was started. My class was also voted the "I don't give a shit" class by the other grades (it wasn't called that around teachers--we WERE a private school after all, but we all knew it was that).

We voted never to have a reunion. The vote was unanimous. I hang around with people I've known since I was five and I really don't care to hang out with anyone else. Sometimes my group of friends runs into another group of people from my class. We will make eye contact, do the nod of "I see you", and then continue on. No awkward "Oh hi, how are you?" or "What are you doing with YOUR life now?". And really, I'm so glad we decided to do that.

dragonsangel68 June 9 2011, 05:59:28 UTC

I hope your reunion is surprisingly fun!

I actually ditched my ten year reunion, mostly because I was eight months pregnant and just didn't feel up to waddling about at a party. Thankfully, no one bothered to organize a twenty year get together :)