Mine was cancelled as it should have happened during covid.
I might have gone just to see a few people I enjoyed hanging out with, but lost touch with. And it’s okay, life happened and we all moved on to something else.
I still have a few friends from high school I see on a regular basis, so maybe I have actually regular high school reunions?
I’m not sure if there ever been a reunion. If it has, then I wasn’t invited.
I don’t care either. I’ve moved cities and got new friends I actually enjoy being with.
as a parent of high schoolers myself, I will come across other parents who will say that they tell their kids to enjoy high school because it’s going to be the greatest days of their life. I disagree greatly with this perspective, but I think this type of person is who class reunions are for. I did not particularly enjoy high school so I am not seeking to relieve those days and would not go.
So agree here.
I remember back when I was in high school some really old alumni came back for an award and gave a speech. He went on about how these were “the absolute best years of his life” and how we should enjoy them.
The kid next to me was like “That’s depressing as shit. That guys in his 80s, has a family, and this was the best thing he ever experienced? Sounds like his priorities have never been straight.”
Always stuck with me. Was really profound at the time.
No. No interest of them while in high school, not the least bit curious of them now.
I went to my 6 year reunion (they forgot at 5 years) because I loved nearby and thought it would be fun. And I did have fun. It was cool seeing people that I hadn’t seen in a while. I skipped the 11 year reunion (Covid delayed it by a year). I moved about 2000 miles away from my hometown, and even though my parents still lived in the area and I could have used it as an excuse to visit them, it just wasn’t a huge priority, and I had other trips the same year and didn’t want to take more time off work.
I don’t know anyone who lives in that area anymore, so don’t see myself going to a 16 year reunion (I feel like it’s a tradition at this point to do it one year later) when it happens.
Highschool reunions aren’t really a thing in my country.
…or they are, and everyone got invited except me.
Nope. I moved away and I don’t talk to any of them.
It’s been over forty years since I graduated, and people organized a few of them since. I went to a 25 year reunion, I think it was. It was strange, really. There were only 110 people in my graduating class, and maybe half or two thirds showed up. I wasn’t close to many people, but it was good to catch up a little with some that I liked.
The one thing that made me really glad that I went was that I ended up at a table with a guy who had been kind of a bully generally, though not to me personally. At one point, a guy who had been a quiet/nerdy type came by and said hi to all of us, asked us all what we were doing. When he left, the bully said, “Well he was was nicer to me than I deserved. I made his high school years hell. I don’t deserve any kindness from him.” He seemed genuinely regretful.
I’ve thought about that a lot over the years - about how who you are today is going to always be with who you are in the future, even if you change.
I didn’t graduate high school so I thought no one wanted me there but I was wrong. I meant to go to the next one but Covid canceled it.
I didn’t go to my 10 year or 20 year.
I was only half-ass invited to the 10 year. Because someone I knew that I graduated with was talking about it and asked if I was going. I wasn’t even invited. From what I gather, it was just thrown together by a few people and they invited basically only people they were friends with back in high school.
20 year from what I gather was even more a pathetic attempt appears it might have been people who still live in that town.
I don’t honestly feel like I missed out. To me, not even being invited tells me these people still haven’t grown up and are still very much thinking in cliques yet. I haven’t seen these people in over 2 decades.
I haven’t been to the town where I was born for any length of time in decades. I haven’t spoken to any of the people I went to school with since I left school. So, no.
I wasn’t invited :(
Likewise. And that’s who I was supposed to want to go back and see (after 10 years or more of not being in touch with any of them)? Nah.
No real loss, honestly.
:(
Then that’s their loss. Screw 'em.
Someone from my old secondary school tried to organise one a few years ago. I figured it might be fun in a cheesy sort of way, even though the only people I’d want to see are the ones I’m still in touch with and would have been going with anyway, and I doubt I’d remember most others at all.
Unfortunately it clashed with an NFL London game I really wanted to go to, and that was always going to win out! No regrets.
Missed my 20th, but went to my 21st (all my friends were a class behind me anyway) and it was genuinely good. Which surprised me a lot.
Highschool reuinions are for people that peaked in highschool. And the farther out those reunions are the more true that is.
Missed my 10 year reunion last year. Couldn’t care less about the kids I went to school with. The ones that matter are still in my life.
