Most things in my life are unsettling. So I do not want to revisit any of them.
I didn’t attend college Commencement.
I hated H.S.
Absolutely no desire to attend. Let alone travel 2500 miles to attend.
Professionally, I got one invitation to a “Going Away” party for people with whom I had had no contact for 10+ years.
It was 1/4 of a Xerox page. And requiring an admission charge. It wasn’t even signed.
Yeah, I do not attend “Reunions”
Ive got zero interest in pretending to care about people i havent seen in years and wont see again. And that applies to the people i liked, nevermind those i disliked.
I always kept in touch with the people I wanted to keep in touch with.
And now there’s Facebook, if I have any curiosity at all about the others.
I avoided all these people in high school and I have no current plans to change that strategy.
Yeah, I went to school in Silicon Valley, so nobody needs to brag about being an Important Person at Google. You and everybody else. So I theorize there was less need to brag, as the assumption is we’re all doing pretty okay these days. That or maybe we’re adults in our 30s now and no longer feel the need to whip our wangs out behind the bleachers. I’m hoping it’s the latter. It is a nice thought that grown ups eventually graduate from the insecurity of teenagers.
I went to my high school’s ten-year reunion (in '82), but haven’t been able to get to any others. A couple years ago I missed a pair of reunions I would have loved to attend - The other people of around my age who attended the same church I did after high school, and one of the boats I served on (everyone who had ever been part of the ship’s crew was invited to that one).
I was a nerd in high school, very unpopular - but even people who strongly disliked me in school seemed happy to see me at the reunion.