Comments | commeantennas: IN WHICH FACETHING PREEMPTS MY HIGH SCHOOL REUNION

commeantennas

IN WHICH FACETHING PREEMPTS MY HIGH SCHOOL REUNION

Mar 14, 2011 00:24

I was looking at the very large list of people whom Facething suggests I be friends with, which was composed almost entirely of people I had gone to high school with. Looking only at this matrix of too-close and/or off-center photos of faces attached to names with some phrase almost always stuck in the middle in place of whatever, likely perfectly ( Read more... )

hbluh, facething, high school, awkwardness

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forevernew March 14 2011, 16:41:14 UTC

Class of '06 is planning a reunion for this Summer, and I honestly can't decide what to do. Obviously I hope to be out of Charlotte by then, but even if I'm not, what then? Do I go to this thing and most likely be encouraged to wear a nametag with my old name on it? I'm not the same person I was then, even though I have most of the same interests. Half of them would pretend to be shocked that I wasn't wearing black, because that and the hair are all they ever really saw. Never even mind the gender thing.

Basically, I feel you. I don't understand the urge to "reconnect" with this random bunch of people, only maybe three of whom I really liked in my year. It seems deliberately arbitrary, if that makes any sense.

commeantennas March 15 2011, 05:25:44 UTC

Maybe everyone feels this way, and the idea is that if we all squirm with awkwardness together, we'll all bond over that really uncomfortable experience.