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High School Reunion.

sparky95

sparky95

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A few weeks ago I was traced by an old school mate, and asked to come to a reunion for our Senior year. It is twenty years since we all graduated and I have not seen most of the others in my year since.
I have very mixed feelings about attending as I had undiagnosed depression over that period, and frankly it was the most miserable four years of my life.
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I hope that the people there are not going to go on how wonderful high school was because it was not for many of us.
A few years ago I would have refused to attend, but now curiosity about what happened to everyone has won out.
I will take my boyfriend with me for support and because it may give him some insights into Australian life, as it is less than two years since he moved from Japan. Any stories or advice for me?:confused: :(​
 
Go. Enjoy it. It's good to see people after a long time of not seeing them, even if only to satisfy your curiosity as to how everyone turned out.

Don't expect a hell of a lot more than "Wow! Great to see you! What are you doing these days?" repeated several hundred times, though. But there will most likely be at least one conversation you have there with someone that night which will make the evening worthwhile.

-d-
 
Reunions are fine. I have done just one and it was quite OK. I mean, I was completely shocked to see them all aged, most former jocks now sporting a beer belly, etc.

Other than that, few really made it into anything. Just the usual...

So, yeah, I did it once, it was nice, and I'd leave it there...

SC
 
I found my 10-year reunion (twenty years ago) very healing. It proved to me that the awful things that happened to me in HS were because we were all in HS, not because my classmates were bad people. They'd grown up into ordinary decent people.

You should go.
 
I think I would go. I've not been the most popular at school but we all grow and change. :D
 
I've been to mine and I've decided not to attend any more.

I don't need to be defined by those 4 years long ago. I don't care to be in a room with the same self-congratulatory people.

The cliques were the same. They stayed together in high school, they stayed together at the reunion. They ran slide shows of their wonderful achievements in high school. It was like being at the senior luncheon all over again. No thanks.

All of the people that showed up looked very good. (Half my class attended. I'm guessing the other half did NOT age well and didn't want to be seen.)
 
I went to my 10 yr reunion, all most 20 yrs ago, I guess just to see everyone, but I have not felt the need to go again. It was OK, but like JNewYork said, the freinds stayed in their groups. I recommend going to at least one reunion, then decide if you want to go to more when they come up.
 
Just GO to it, Sparky. PLEASE. Otherwise you will continue to wonder if you missed something really wonderful, or what. I didn't like my years in high school either, and I didn't have any real friends, but that didn't keep me away from the 40th last year in Michigan. I had no lack of people to chat with, things to talk about, things to learn...interestingly the best conversation I had that day was with a guy I couldn't STAND when I was in school because he was kind of a bully and would often tease me etc. But if you go, INTEND to have a good time - and I can almost guarantee you that you'll be glad you went.
 
I am contemplating this right now as it is 10 years since I graduated high school (May 2003.) I don't even have a clue as to wether there is even going to be a reunion this year! (Do high school alumni generally wait till the 20th?)

If there is one for the tenth, I may not go...I have so many regrets due to my aloof, standoffish persona I had in high school. I never let anyone get close to me...I guess it was due to being gay, but scared to death about being ostracized about it.

There were numerous signs that it might have worked out had I been out in HS. Nostalgia is a cruel mnemonic that leads you to recall all your youthful regrets.
 
I have stopped going, because they mostly talk about their children and grandchildren.
 
Nearly seven years later, my answer is still the same, and there hasn't been a reunion for me to go to during that time. There have only been those multi-class things, which don't interest me as much, because of a too-low density of people I actually knew in school from other graduating years, which will "dilute" the event. Two years from now there should be a big yamakatama** for all of us, as it will be the Fiftieth.

**This word doesn't exist, but the meaning is fairly obvious, LOL. My coined word similar to "major celebration."

I had a rather awful time through high school, being extremely socially awkward and backwards, but somehow I managed to end up at a school where bullying was rare. The guy I mentioned in the 2006 post, the "bullying" was entirely verbal, and VERY mild at that, more teasing than anything. In four years of high school, I was never hit by anybody (nor even threatened!), and I don't even remember being called queer/homo/faggot. It was late enough in my life that my memory wouldn't have repressed stuff that was worse.

All that said, I've always had a good time - at the very few I've had the opportunity to attend.
 
Please go, I had the same experience and unfortunately the bad experiences from high school had erased the good memories. I went and talked to people who reminded me and talked about great time we had in high school. It entirely changed my memory of school and reconnected me with friends who I keep in touch with now. I now barely remember the bad time and it was a very healing experience for me.
 
Dejavudoo said:
No, most classes begin gathering at 10. Contact your school, or if there is one, an alumni association. You could also just hunt up former class leaders via Facebook.
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Also, google your high school for the reunion. I have my 50th coming up and the class has its own website (probably sponsored by the venue).

Not going. Too far. Maine to Florida for that? Not happening.
 
it amazes me that this thread was re activated. how did you find it? why not just start a new thread? I'm curious, did the OP go to his reunion? I need details...
 
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