Attending high school reunions

I'm not even sure my class even had a 10th. I'll probably go to the 15th, though, which is -- holy shit -- next freaking summer!! I'm suddenly not feeling so well. Ugh.

 

I'm a sucker for reunions. I have my 20th college reunion in a couple of months and a reunion from a previous job in a few weeks. It's not that I was Miss Popularity in high school, but I love knowing what happened to everyone. Plus, I've aged much better than a lot of my classmates at my last high school reunion and that was fun.

 

Have absolutely do desire to go to any of my reunions.

 

Didn't go to my 10th but went to my 15th, more out of curiosity than anything. Had a pretty good time.

Funny thing is, my wife liked to say that she was popular in high school. Me, I definitely wasn't in the in crowd. When we went to her 10th reunion, none of her closest friends were there, so she spent most of the night introducing herself to people that barely remembered her.

For my reunion, people were coming up to me with handshakes and hugs and all that, and my wife was stunned.

 

I went to my 10th and 20th reunions and had some fun. I came from a relatively small (40,000 pop.) town that although just an hour from a major city was fairly self-contained. The thing I hate is that the "in" crowd still thinks of themselves as the "in" crowd simply because of what happened in HS. So the cliches still reigned and it merely reinforced the drive I had to get out to college and never look back. I have some good memories but I have fonder memories of college than HS; I think that's the difference, the people who have a blast at the HS reunions get to revile in their past glory; and those like me shake their heads and wonder "why did I come back for this?"

 

Haven't been to one since the 5th, which was so long ago now it seems like part of high school.
I would probably have an awful time if I went to one, but I'll admit I'm really curious about several people. I moved a long way from home a long time ago and I haven't seen but a few of them in the past few decades. I wonder if anyone else feels this way -- it bothers me that I just don't have a context for most of these people, except how they looked at 18.

 

40th coming in September. Should be fun.
Been thinking a bit about high school recently after stumbling upon "17 Again" on TV the other night. It was filmed at my high school. Lots of scenes in the gym, amphitheater, cafeteria, history building. Spent a lot of time in that gym.

 

Didn't go to the 5-year high school reunion. The 10th was called off because of so little interest. The 15th was a blast. By that time most of the hard feelings had been put aside by most people, and there was a lot more collective perspective among the 100-125 who attended. I also found that I was quite surprised by how well some of my former classmates were doing and how much they had changed for the better in 15 years.

Baron, I had a similar instance at the 15th, as I wasn't in the proverbial "in crowd" in high school ... and people whom I hadn't seen since graduation were coming up to me and hugging me and were genuinely interested in what/how I was doing - including a guy who teased me mercilessly in the ninth grade!

You couldn't pay me, however, to go to my college reunion.

 

A college reunion would be awesome.

 

Whenever I get my college alumni newsletter, they always have things in it about reunions. Yet to me, most of the people who attend these are the senior citizens. My college had a 10th reunion, and something like three people attended.