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High School Reunions
- March
- 8
7:06 pm Uncategorized
Me & Mel from the Footprints Team, at our 10 year high school reunion.
Have you ever been to a high school reunion? Loved it? Hated it? Wouldn’t be caught dead at one?!
I’ve had mixed experiences. At my 10 year reunion, it felt a bit cliquey and I didn’t enjoy it that much. The best part was being able to “show off” that I was 6 months pregnant with our first child – somebody loved me enough to marry me and have a baby with me! Plus, there’s nothing like a baby (or in this case, a baby bump!) to break the ice.
At my 20 year reunion on the other hand, I had a blast! Why? Because by that stage we’d all grown up, and it didn’t matter anymore who was popular and who wasn’t. I didn’t want to waste a minute and caught up with so many people … I didn’t worry if we’d been in the same crowd or not at school. Only one girl snobbed me off and looked at me like I’d crawled out from under a rock, but I figure that’s her problem not mine (especially as she was propping up the bar with some of the blokes – says a lot I think!).
There was a bit of a catch-up last year rather than a full scale reunion, as it was 26 years after we graduated, but this time I didn’t feel like going (plus it was an hour’s drive away) … so I didn’t. Maybe next time.
I’m just glad I have good memories of the last one, especially when I hear about those who have already passed away. Makes me realise how precious this gift of life is!
But you know which reunion I’m REALLY looking forward to? That will be the FAMILY REUNION in heaven … being with my Father God … and all my Christian brothers and sisters in perfect harmony … not to mention finding out just who I have been able to influence into the Kingdom of God!
(Thanks to Do I really Wanna Blog?: A Letter To My Old School Classmates which inspired this post!)
4 comments
What a great article and a gorgeous photo. I would love to go to a school reunion.
Posted by Lindy Lane, on March 11th, 2010, at 6:19 am. #.
The way the school catchment areas worked out, I went to a primary school to the east of my house and a high school to the west of my house. So I didn’t have any other students who went with me. After high school I went to a university where none of my high school students also went. So there was not a lot of continuity at the school level. I don’t even know if the high school has a reunion. I don’t think they did have a tradition of high school reunions in those days. Because it was the sixties I suspect there would be few of my vintage turn up now.
My life resembles a necklace of beads. It is a succession of self-contained episodes. The string connecting them just seems to be me and family. An interesting aspect of modern life. I suspect I’m looking at a future where I end up in some retirement place surrounded by people I’ve never met before.
I suppose I can watch all those movies where people work out their lifelong entanglements with each other and come to some kind of resolution.
Posted by Ken Rolph, on March 13th, 2010, at 4:45 am. #.
Great post – didnt enjoy school much – so don’t have any desire to go to reunions.
I do love your last paragraph here. 
Lovely sentiment. I’ve never been to a school reunion.
Posted by Anonymous, on March 9th, 2010, at 11:23 am. #.