In this thread, I related a story of an unpleasant high school experience.
I was always an oddball in high school. Part of me wanted to be part of the popular crowd until I studied those popular types and realized how shallow they were. So I stuck with my small circle of oddball friends and got along just fine.
Next year will be the 25th anniversary of my high school graduation. I don’t know if a reunion is planned, but I know I won’t be attending (even if K asks me ).
Yes, I am curious about a few people and how they look now, but it wouldn’t be worth it to suffer through an entire evening of their company.
Anybody else planning to miss a reunion or have already done so?
I don’t plan to go to any of my high school or college reunions, even if I do become a success. Why should I care about rubbing my success in the faces of people who don’t matter to me? That would just be petty and passive aggressive and I don’t go in for that. Also, I doubt if I’d even recognize anyone. When I was in high school (and to a large extent college) my classmates didn’t even register on my radar, I was going through a lot of difficult family and mental health issues so even though I got picked on a whole lot I don’t hold secret grudges against any one or two individuals. High school is all kind of a blur for me; it’s a blur I’d rather forget but I won’t be staying home from the reunion so I can sharpen sticks to throw at the people who abused me most in the parking lot. It just won’t be something I want to do or even think about that much.
I will go to my grad school reunions if any are held, because I’m really good friends with most of my class (small program) and want to see them again. Also, I wouldn’t be rubbing my success in anyone’s faces; there are dozens of published writers in our program and when they talk about their sales I don’t think of it as being a passive aggressive move, I am genuinely happy for them and I know they aren’t boasting.
Probably not. The summer after my senior year my group of friends really pared down to 4 people. I probably will keep in contact with them and don’t really care enough to see anyone else.
Actually I am particularly interested in going to my High School reunion. Crazy, I know. Why?
Because nearly everybody in school thought I was going to shoot/blow up the school back when I was in High School. Everybody thought I was this psychotic recluse and there wasn’t much I could convince them otherwise. I’d like to go to a reunion, not necessarily more succesful/happier/richer than them, but rather demonstrate that I’m just a normal guy. I’d also like to see how many people turned out, for better or worse.
Of course one could argue those are all reasons why I ought not to go to a reunion…who knows what I’ll decide when the time comes.
I believe that next year will be my ten year reunion. THere is every possiblity that I will be a long distance from my high school. Frankly, my high school experience was miserable and even though I had a group of friends I wouldn’t mind seeing, I’m not about to travel accross the country for it.
I don’t remember much of high school(Every time I try, all I get is a wierd 30 second, dream-like montage of random moments) and didn’t know much of anyone there.
Yes, for the entertainment value.
I was pegged as the cheerful, nerdish, sarcastic girl in high school. Not really an oddball - too talkative. I was never really hated by anyone, or traumatised by anything (unless you count Gym Class). The alpha princesses in my grade - well, I was on speaking terms with most of them, and they seemed to have just as many issues as the rest of us, from what I saw. So yeah, out of anthropological interest, I’d go.
I only graduated from HS 6 years ago, though.
I’d go if there was a reunion for my high school class. I only graduated 4 years ago though, so maybe a 5-year reunion. It would be interesting to see where people ended up going to university, or what they did instead. I wasn’t particularly close friends with many people, but the IB (International Baccalaureate) group was sufficiently small that I’d recognize most of my fellow students (about 60-80 people, I think). I can’t imagine that there would be much of “look how well I did” going on. There were a lot of bright students who I’m sure went to prestigous universities (I know one girl who goes to MIT), but they are all for the most part pretty cool people. I see some of them on the street randomly whenever I’m at home (which is how I know about MIT girl). I doubt any reunion would happen though - who organizes these types of events anyway? I’m not so sure they are common at all in Sweden either. Guess I’ll just have to go on wondering what happened to all of them without ever finding out.
It would also be cool to have a reunion for the people I did my national service for a year with. We have a sort of messageboard online though (not that anyone writes or checks it, but at least everyones email can be found there), so they would be easier to get in touch with. I’m sure if I just called or emailed a few of them we would easily be able to organize a party of some sort. A lot of us live in the same city, and the others don’t live too far away… besides, I’m sure they’d all like to make sure that I haven’t smoked myself to death with pot or anything. Ended up with a bit of a stoner reputation while I was there…
I’m not sure I would. Months ago, the former student president of my high school IMed me and asked if I or anybody I knew would be interested in a five-year reunion. I said no, and no one I asked wanted to either. That’s just too soon. I’m not sure how I’ll feel about it in five more years. There are very few people I want to be in touch with from high school who I am not actually in contact with. If I’ve accomplished enough by my own standards, I guess I’d consider it.
I went to my 5-year reunion. And even that short time was enough that the people who talked to each other at the reunion weren’t the same people who were friends in high school.
This year would be 35 … I haven’t heard anything about a planned reunion, nor can I think of any reason to go if one was held … those people are just totally irrelevant to my life now.
Most of my friends in high school were a year older or a year younger, so none were in my graduating class. I didn’t hate the people in my class, I just didn’t have a lot to do with them so I have never gone to a class reunion.
Now they have started to have class reunions with four or five years together. Of course, now I have no interest whatsoever as I keep in touch with a grand total of one friend from back in those days, and he and his wife have gone to a few (they live in that town) and have told me I am missing nothing by not attending. I think they said the last one had only a few people, all of whom lived within 10 miles of the town, and it was a real snoozefest.
I live a couple thousand miles away from where I grew up. Oddly enough, though, I happened to be in town on vacation when my 10-year reunion was being held. I specifically found something more interesting to do – hanging out with Superdude, actually – as my own special little snub of my former classmates.
My 10 year is next month and I still haven’t decided if I’ll be going. There are tons of people I’d love to see, but I suspect they are not the types who’ll be attending. And I came from a big class, so I could go, have 200 people there, and not know over half of them. So I’m still thinking about it.
My 10th is fast approaching, and I’m seriously thinking about skipping it. I’ve kept in touch with the people from high school who matter to me.
I’m definitely going to the 20th, though. Literally everyone in my class married another person from my class. And the class was 275 people! By then, half of those couples will be divorced and hating each other. The gossip will be priceless.
My 10th will be next year, and I have no desire to go. I’m still in touch with a lot of my friends from high school (maybe a dozen or so people in all, including my roommate who is one of my best friends), and I couldn’t care less about any of the others.
I didn’t like most of them, & my family moved to a new community during the last 6 months of my education, so my school meant nothing to me.
I recall resenting the fact that my new High School got the credit for my winning a National Merit Scholarship when the joint was so crummy. And did they ever use it to promote that sh*tshack? WHEW! :smack: :mad:
My 30 year reunion is being planned, but I’m not planning on attending. Although I had a decent time in high school and I was one of the more well known people in the school, all my friends at the time were not from school and were older.
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