High School Reunions

Went to my 20th, it was fun and interesting to see everyone.  I graduated in a class of 62 people, many of whom still live in the same town or very nearby.

Skipped my 25th, which was held 2 weeks ago; maybe I'll go to the 30th, who knows - it's five years away.

I was unpopular, had a ton of problems at home, so high school really blew chunks til I was a senior.  I was nervous prior to going to the reunion thinking everyone would be the same, but most of the people had matured enough that I felt welcomed.  I've changed a lot, too, so maybe that was part of the difference.  It was a fun evening.

There is no way in hell that I would let Mr. W hear about my HS "antics".

Deb W.

I went to my 10 year reunion and had a blast.  I went to a very small private school with a lot of really stuck up people, so I wasn't sure how I would feel when I got there.  I do still hang out regulalry with a lot of people I went to school with or with their wives.  I found that there was just a small handful of people who had kids or were pregnant, and that EVERYONE was far more accepting and less stuck up then they were back then.  I guess things change when you no longer have unlimited access to daddy's money!  Since our high school was so small, we were a fairly tight knit group, even with all of the politics involved, but the reunion proved to be a ton of fun for everyone I think.  It was fun to see how everyone has changed, and what direction they had chosen to take their life in.

georgie4682

Did you go?  Do you plan on going?  Why or why not?

No. I don't really want to go back to HS...ever. Life for me, got so much better AFTER...there's not really much reason to.

rwbeagles

georgie4682

Did you go?  Do you plan on going?  Why or why not?

No. I don't really want to go back to HS...ever. Life for me, got so much better AFTER...there's not really much reason to.

I feel the exact same way. I envy those who had a great high school experience, although I think it might be quite rare.

High school was great for me!!  I floated in the middle, got involved in a TON of stuff which meant connections with tons of different people, and new experiences I wouldn't have had if I'd just gone home after school.  I guess I don't really expect anyone to be the same as they were in HS, because we're adults with new perspectives and a helluvalot more responsibilities.  (Which is why 10yrs out isn't enough time to appreciate the differences in people.)  I love the surprises of who is doing great things, or married to oddball people, or have creative careers, or turned out to be fantastic folks I'd like to be friends with now as adults.  There are some disappointments with those who have let their lives really, really tank, but you end up remembering the good more than the bad.

What's odd about my age now is many of my HS friends have kids the same age we were when we met in middle school (10-11yrs old).... THAT is weird, to look at their kids and think "MAN, she looks just like her mother did when I met her 20 years ago!"

cakana

I feel the exact same way. I envy those who had a great high school experience, although I think it might be quite rare.

To me it's just....4 years. That's it...and I plan to live what 70 something? I cannot see singling out those 4 years as anything special. None of the people I went to HS with...I went to Jr Hi with...let alone Elementary LOL, we moved a lot.

I guess if you lived in the same town your entire childhood it's very different. But I spent 4 years working with some people I actually liked and I would be more interested in their lives and updates...than anyone I went to HS with. I also can't imagine my husband being interested in spending money to go someplace to spend time with people he has NO idea who they even ARE lmao. That'd go over like a ton of dead squid. And vice versa for me...yeah...here is me interested in sitting in a convention center meeting room in podunk, OKlahoma surrounded by people I don't know...teehee. They'd better have an open bar is all I would be sayin'!

I imagine if...as we plan...we stay here thru the kids HS they'll have known some kids for 13 years. THAT is something...so perhaps it's just a matter of roots being put down. In my case there certainly weren't any.

rwbeagles

I guess if you lived in the same town your entire childhood it's very different.

I'm definitely hoping to go to my 10 year HS reunion, mainly because it's so hard to get everyone in the same place at the same time these days and I would really like to see them. I had a huge and close group of friends (really, groupS of friends), most of whom I keep in touch with even now.

Also, since I'm now on the East Coast, but grew up on the West Coast, I'd like to go back and see the town itself. And it's really hard for me to keep in touch with people, because most of my friends stayed in the CA area and I don't really go back.

If I didn't have friends from HS that I wanted to see, no way would I be interested in going. But if you have people you'd like to re-connect with, I think it would be a lot of fun!!

Cita

My entire town was designed around "school communities," so every residential neighborhood was organized around 2-3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school, so we all went to school together pretty much our entire lives. And we all lived within walking/biking distance (for example, there was NO school bus system). Made it easy for us to hang out with each other, even as little kidlets.

This makes a lot of sense to me...you put down roots. I think Lily and Eli are starting to do that. But it's really a foreign concept to me somewhat LOL.

I think on the one hand it'd be cool to have had a different experience...but on the other? Shoot, the person I was then and am now I would not really trade out just for some friends...so much of who I am now came about BECAUSE of the change and the difficulty of HS.

I think it is the same for many people...some flourish in that environment, and find their feet and what they want out of life, and others merely suffer thru it to get out of it and THEN actually "fledge" out and become the people they're meant to become.

I suppose this is what we have replaced the more primitive practices of "warrior trials" and "vision quests" with for our adolescents. LOL.

Gina, you make a really good point.  Since this was a small private school, I had been in school with most of these people since I was in 1st grade.  So even though a lot of them were snobby and stuck up, we all grew up together and spent our entire lives together which is probably why I have stayed in more contact with a lot of them. 

rwbeagles

I guess if you lived in the same town your entire childhood it's very different.

I live in a very small town (7 miles long, 1 mile wide), and my graduating class was less than 100 people...and I went to kindergarten with most of them ! So, I definitely have roots here (yup, still live in the same town, as do most of the people I graduated with!).

H.S was pretty enjoyable for me.  It was a small (about 300 students in grades 9 thru 12) Catholic girl's school and everyone pretty much got along with everybody. There was no competition about clothes because we wore uniforms, no competition about who looked good and who didn't because we weren't allowed to wear make-up or tease our hair, no competition for boys because there weren't any. I've only been to two reunions and had a great time at both of them, and will be going next summer.  I didn't go this summer because I knew I'd be flying down for my niece's wedding and I didn't want to take two trips.

Joyce

I can't say I am interested in going to mine, but I'd like to know when it is nonetheless.

I am from a small town, and grew up there all through elementary school and high school, but I still have zero interest in seeing anyone from there again. I didn't have a horrible high school experience, I had fun but I think with me, I just plain and simple didn't like most people. It was all way too much drama for my liking. Perhaps I am oddly laid back about things, but I just never had time for the drama people created around themselves. I would find myself friends with all kinds of different groups in high school for various lengths of time. I simply got bored of one group so I hung out with another and so on and so on. I can think of about five people I'd be interested in seeing what they are doing now.