Next weekend is my twentieth high school reunion and that freaks me out. Seriously has it really been that long? I’m going to go because it’s one of those rights of passage that you just need to experience and I don’t want to regret not going. Here’s the thing though, I barely know anyone that graduated from my class. I don’t really talk to anyone from my class, just the occasional ‘Hi!’ on Facebook but that’s about it. I probably remember more people than they would remember me. I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t a total outcast, I was invisible. I tried to fit in with the crowd, I went to football games, dances and such but I was still hanging out in the shadows. So being that I wasn’t memorable will I get much out of going to the reunion?
Don’t get me wrong, I did have a decent high school experience, and my closest, most treasured friends were my high school friends, but they graduated in ’91. I went to my ten year and I also went to the ten year reunion for the class of ’91. It was the second reunion that I connected the most with. It felt like home to me, comfortable.
I’m going to go to homecoming and I’m going to try to remain open about the whole experience. People change right? Maybe someone who never would have said ‘Hi’ to me in the hallway will find that they really have a lot more in common with me twenty years later.
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Go, but only if you want to. I was a lot closer with the people that graduated the year after me. I really couldn’t stand most of the people in my class. I didn’t go to the 10 year, but like you I will probably go to the 20 year as well. You could get much amusement out of going, who knows.
..Reunions can be fun, funny, awkward, etc. etc.. I’ve been to all of mine, and people come out of the woodwork that you never even thought that they knew you existed..Even a few weeks ago at church one of the ole “Pom Pom” girls recognized me and started a conversation with me..I never had a conversation at all with her in the four years of high school..I’ll have another reunion coming up next year and will also go…You can always leave if it’s not working for you, at least you gave it a shot..I usually go with someone that also graduated the same year, or a friend..spouses get bored..