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I've recently received my mumble, mumble-nth* year high school reunion invitation.
Le sigh
I'm, ahem, old enough that this is not my first invite to such an event. I've never even considered going before now. I mean come on, what was the likelihood that anyone had done anything really interesting in the first five or ten years after high school graduation?
Slim to none, IME anyway.
Fast forward to my rapidly approaching * mumble, mumble-nth year high school reunion...
Gut instinct?
Skip it. Why go? I mean despite eschewing facebook, I know some "way back then"hot shots will be bald, at least one "Most Likely To Succeed" person will have subsequently flunked out of Junior College and instead works for " Mr. Least Likely To Succeed" tinting windows.
I admit it. I am pathologically antisocial. But even if I weren't, the very idea of a reunion makes me feel all angsty. I'm not nearly as nervous about how I might be received by others as I am worried over how I'll deal with my peers, some 20+ years later. AND even more ridiculously, I actually worry about how other people will be treated, should life not have been too kind to them during the last, ahem decade or so.
I know. Don't borrow trouble.
Sorry.
My "get to it already" question:
Do you go to reunions? High school, college, Pampered Chef? Cutco?
Whatever the call to arms, do you attend reunions?
Why or why not?
Le sigh
I'm, ahem, old enough that this is not my first invite to such an event. I've never even considered going before now. I mean come on, what was the likelihood that anyone had done anything really interesting in the first five or ten years after high school graduation?
Slim to none, IME anyway.
Fast forward to my rapidly approaching * mumble, mumble-nth year high school reunion...
Gut instinct?
Skip it. Why go? I mean despite eschewing facebook, I know some "way back then"hot shots will be bald, at least one "Most Likely To Succeed" person will have subsequently flunked out of Junior College and instead works for " Mr. Least Likely To Succeed" tinting windows.
I admit it. I am pathologically antisocial. But even if I weren't, the very idea of a reunion makes me feel all angsty. I'm not nearly as nervous about how I might be received by others as I am worried over how I'll deal with my peers, some 20+ years later. AND even more ridiculously, I actually worry about how other people will be treated, should life not have been too kind to them during the last, ahem decade or so.
I know. Don't borrow trouble.
Sorry.
My "get to it already" question:
Do you go to reunions? High school, college, Pampered Chef? Cutco?
Whatever the call to arms, do you attend reunions?
Why or why not?
