High School reunions
Apr. 16th, 2004 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeSo I'm reading Carolyn Hax's web chat on washingtonpost.com, and a post comes in about how she's found out she hasn't been invited to her imminent 10-year HS reunion (and it was deliberate), and should she crash it anyway? People weigh in on whether she should crash it to make a point (even though she lives 2500 miles away) or organize her own reunion with the others who weren't invited. Carolyn says she thinks this is an anomoly but then other people post that they too were not invited to their reunions.
Whaaaa? I...don't get that at all. I thought the point of reunions was to show you'd moved past that shit. My 10-year HS reunion rocked--pretty much everyone was better-looking, we could all drink legally, I brought two dates, we all had a blast. We're having an informal one this summer and I can't wait. I sent my headshot to the organizer and got these drooly emails from guys I'd known then. Really looking forward to it.
And I was not one of the "beautiful people" in HS. I played sports, which was cool, and I was in Student Council, but I was also on the It's Academic team (televised game show) and I lacked social skills. But none of that really mattered; we really didn't have cliques--we were too small (82 kids in my class) and most of us had known each other for a long time. I'd been in that system since 3rd grade. We weren't One Big Happy Family, but yeah, generally people got along. I've never related to John Hughes movies--the mean people in them seem like they're from another planet. Nobody in my HS ever acted that way.
Whaaaa? I...don't get that at all. I thought the point of reunions was to show you'd moved past that shit. My 10-year HS reunion rocked--pretty much everyone was better-looking, we could all drink legally, I brought two dates, we all had a blast. We're having an informal one this summer and I can't wait. I sent my headshot to the organizer and got these drooly emails from guys I'd known then. Really looking forward to it.
And I was not one of the "beautiful people" in HS. I played sports, which was cool, and I was in Student Council, but I was also on the It's Academic team (televised game show) and I lacked social skills. But none of that really mattered; we really didn't have cliques--we were too small (82 kids in my class) and most of us had known each other for a long time. I'd been in that system since 3rd grade. We weren't One Big Happy Family, but yeah, generally people got along. I've never related to John Hughes movies--the mean people in them seem like they're from another planet. Nobody in my HS ever acted that way.
