The Fifty-Year Reunion looms. I don’t know what to expect. Will I know anyone? Will anyone know me? Fifty years is a looong time. I wonder if I’m crazy to be traveling such a long way to attend a gathering of strangers. I have had a few communications with some of the classmates, which is promising, but will they remember me on the day? A surprising number of them still live in the area where we went to school, and no doubt many have kept in contact with one another. But here I am, in Australia for over 32 years, totally out of touch. I really will be the “odd person out.”
If nothing else, at least I should be a strong contender for the prize for having traveled the farthest. Not that there really is such a prize, of course, but that’s pretty typical for me. The only time I win anything is when there isn’t a prize.
I’ve been trying to troll through my memory bank for anecdotes from high school, and I really can’t find many. I’m pretty sure I was there, but there isn’t a lot of evidence. Certainly not in the form of academic performance. I was a terrible student. Fact is, I wasn’t a student at all. I just attended classes regularly. I never did any homework. I was the sort of student that causes much grinding of teeth amongst faculty members. But I got my just desserts; both my sons were exactly the same kind of student as I was, except a lot smarter.
The Reunion coincides with the high school Homecoming Game, and we (the seriously senescent alumni) will have our own section at the game, AND we can either ride or walk in the Homecoming Parade. Now I’m not expecting my classmates to be arriving with Zimmer frames, but I think in the eyes of the hormonal hordes of high school students, we will seem unimaginably old.
Perhaps our challenge will be to demonstrate to these callow youth that there is life after high school…long after, however pathetic it might look to them now. Do I yearn for the high school days? Good heavens, no. I’d like to have the fitness and energy, the seemingly endless expanse of time laid out in front of me, but to be a teenager again would be…well, pretty awful. Admittedly, I am experiencing a certain amount of teenage-like angst at the moment, but at least I do know better. Age does bring with it a certain amount of wisdom, which is probably just experience you don’t have to keep having over and over again. I’m happy enough to feel like a teenager without having to be a teenager.
So, bring on the 50-year reunion. I think I’ll be up for a little trip through Memory Land. As long as they’re someone else’s memories. Mine are pretty bland. MM
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That’s amazing! My father-in-law went to his high school reunion a few years ago but they combined graduating classes from the late 40s to the early 70s since by that time some of the classes had gotten so small. Even if you don’t remember anyone or recognize them I think it’ll be incredible!
My high school reunion is this weekend. Not even during a football game, so I’m not going, but it definitely made me think about high school. I totally understand your teenage angst popping back up!! All of the outsider stuff in high school made me a better person though – check it out: Melanie Devaney
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Great Post. Really Like your photo. 🙂
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It always makes me sad when people say the best time of their life was high school. How can it be all downhill from there?
I bet more people will remember you than you think. Have fun!
I’m just 4 years out of high school and this post made me think about how I’m gonna look back at my life 46 years later 🙂 Nostalgia is such a universal feeling ain’t it??
Best wishes. Be brave and go see if they remember you.
reunion is nice concept to meet our past…!
Jen’s 30 year reunion is coming up next summer. She hasn’t gone to the others but is considering attending this one. What makes us go reconnect with our past anyway? Thanks for a great post that gives us food for thought.
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I hope you have a fun time, connect with old friends, and definitely ride in the parade! It will be something different, for sure. There’s something to be said about looking at one’s past once in awhile to reconnect with your future. High school is way over, and you’re not that person anymore, but it’s interesting to revisit such a formative life period…as long as it’s just for one day, as going back to high school would not be fun for anymore time than that. Good luck!
Sadly, quite a few of my classmates haven’t made it. It’s a pretty sobering realization to look at the list of people who haven’t. I feel very fortunate indeed. MM
, I would have paid SERIOUS money to acquire the tidbit that mum was a slacker in school. As for either my brother or I being smarter; HA! If we were, we might have found out that she was such a ne’er do well and could have put up a better argument when the report cards materialized!
Good for you. This year is my 35 and I won’t be making it. Geography and time is my reason, though it seems pretty lame as some are coming from California and Germany.
I just read your post again and noticed, this time, where you grew up. My father graduated Northeast in ’57 and my mother was the first valedictorian of the then brand new Van Horn.
Have a great trip back to KCMO. Everything is up to date there. They’ve gone about as fer as they can go.
I went to my 30th reunion with many of the same feelings–would I know anyone who was coming? Why was I going? I attended a Catholic girls’ high school and had kept in touch with fewer than 5 folks over the years. I ran into someone at the airport when we were traveling to Europe whom i had gone to school with and she convinced me I HAD to go–sent me all the info–and I think my curiosity about her made me curious about the rest of the class, so I made plans to attend, but kept second guessing myself for the intervening months. I knew a few of the women in my class had become physicians and journalists and researchers. I would have loved to see them again, but it also made me extremely nervous! Of course I wished I could attend with the cloak of invisibility, but I had to actually materialize to satsfy that curiosity.
Here are the two things I did to bolster my courage: I contacted my very best friend from high school and made her promise to meet me there–and although she arrived late, she was there and worth every moment of discomfort I endured until she arrived. I also splurged by purchasing a beautiful silk ikat jacket that was emblematic of who I was and my interests in travel and diverse cultures. It had a story I could tell and feel good about.
I had only moved 2 states away, but I had traveled the farthest, I think. Most of the women who attended had moved less than 20 miles away from their parents’ homes. They were teachers or nurses or administrative assistants. One or two worked for nonprofits. Their whole world and perspective were wrapped up on their homes, their families, their jobs — which few of them enjoyed. They had little interest in social justice issues or politics. I couldn’t find books or even movies we had in common. They could tell me who died, who was divorced, who moved away. There were a lot of silences. They were shocked that I directed a national program and traveled all over the country (which only sounds glamorous to people who don’t travel for work) but did open my eyes to issues that look different in different communities. Since I am a woman with a disability, I shattered a few stereotypes that night, which, I admit, was satisfying.
I think overall, despite that moment of satisfaction and the time I spent with my old friend, I realized that this reunion stuff wasn’t for me. The women who came weren’t people I wanted to know when high school was over and I really had little in common with them now. The ones who didn’t come were probably the ones with interesting lives and they, like me didn’t really want to look back and reminisce. They were moving forward.
I think attending a high school reunion would be one of the scariest things to face. Well done for going and well done on the fp.
What an interesting post. My 20th is coming up next year. I skipped the 10th (and the 5th, couldn’t believe an effort was made for only 5 years). So right now I’m planning to go to this one. I would be interested to read a post about your 50th after you go. Safe travels and best wishes for an enjoyable evening, whether or not your high school years were the best ever.
I’ve gone to my 10 year and then also my 20 year reunion. I went mainly because of an Ann Landers column I saw once. Essentially she said: Just go! It will be interesting, full of surprises, and you just might enjoy yourself. Doesn’t matter if you were in the “in” group or out, jock, nerd, etc. People will have grown….some even for the best! And, I have to say, that’s exactly what I found. I think some of us get too deep into the teenage thought “what are they going to think of me, how are they going to judge me, etc…..” when the focus needs to be on just being present, connecting with folks, and being open minded. You will have a great time!
Energyandjoy,
I just attended my 20 year… and almost missed out. It was hard to go to I was expecting a train wreck… but all in all it wasn’t too bad. there were those who had not grown… or at least I am assuming (they were husbands) and they were assholes… but a lot of people were really cool to reconnect and catch up with. I agree with E&J, go, have fun and take it for what it is, a night out catching up with people you have not seen in many years. Enjoy!
Mmmm…your post makes me think about if I would attend my high school reunion…my 15th will be coming up in 2 short years. A few years ago, I would have said no because high school was not a happy experience for me. But now, I think I would go because as I am now living out my thirties I am realizing the importance of friendships. I unfortunately did not keep in touch with my close high school friends, and, surprisingly, 13 years whizzed by me without the companionship I could have had with these handful of guys and gals that kept me grounded during a tough time in my life. I applaud you for attending despite your not-so-positive memories about high school. I have a feeling it will be well worth the time and travel. 🙂
Love this! I have mine this year and really don’t mind missing it! Still a popularity contest 10 years later. I’m ok just being “popular” with my family! 🙂
I think you should go. I don’t remember that much about my high school which was just 4 years ago. I really think you should go. Good luck and have fun!
Great perspective – I am attending my 20th reunion in October at our Homecoming Game. We too, will have a designated section, only this stadium is brand new. Our school was torn down and re-built, so the school tour will seem strange. I have lived away from all of my classmates for most of those years, but thanks to the internet, we’ve actually stayed in touch over the last five years. Enjoy your childhood again and built some new memories. I loved your class picture! Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed.
A Highschool reunion? I have never actually heard of such a thing… I wonder who organises such an event? I’m still in university at the moment, and have not returned or even visited my school since I left (4 years ago). Good riddance, perhaps the times are just too near, but I hated a lot of the teachers, my more than irritating peers and the way they treated us like kids even when we were 18.
If I had to go to a reunion 40 years later, it would be to show up all those idiots who attended in my year. Asides this I still keep in contact with a few good friends. 😀 It would be interesting to hear the rest of your story!
I didn’t make it to our first high school reunion. Sigh!…
I have only been out of school since 2004. Haven’t even had 10th anniversary reunion yet. I would go if I knew people I knew were going … otherwise, I would be happy to give it a miss.
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My 20 year is coming up next summer, and I have already had about enough of those folks via Facebook.
I went to my 20th reunion, but couldn’t be bothered going to the 30th. I imagine by the 50th I’ll be even less interested! Great post though.
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Those who joined the military will also have commonality of not residing in the same ole city. Enjoy your trip, sounds exciting.
Wow, I can’t imagine what my 50th reunion would be like! But, for me it’s so far away – I’m only a year out of high school, hehe.
Hope you enjoy! I’m sure it will be a great trip back to the US, anyway. (:
Have fun! My Dad is attending his 50th this year… hope it goes well for all.
Nicely done! “…demonstrate to these callow youth that there is life after high school…long after, however pathetic it might look to them now.” Go get ’em!
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
This is my other half’s computer but I had to comment on your blog. I’m going to my 50th reunion next week-end & I’ve wondered the same things. On my old school site they had a guest book & after I commented on it, I’ve heard from some old friends….I think I prefer the term former. It’ll be so good to see everyone, that is if I can recognize anybody. Ha! Your blog came at the right time. Thanks.
Leilani Parker from Reitz Memorial HS in Evansville, In.
The interesting story would be how you eneded up so far away. I have never been to a high school reunion. My 40th will be next year. I would not know anyone because my father moved in my Senior year and I didn’t get to know anyone that year. I just atteneded because I had to, but I hated it. When you go to a new school, everyone already has their friends so I felt left out. I hope you have a wonderful time at your reunion.
Why would you ever want to go to a high school reunion?
For me, it would mean seeing people that I never liked again and trying to be polite.
So let me tone it down and say simply that high school and college reunions are not for me.
Bill
You’re brave to go! I hope you have a good time, or at least an interesting one. Coming such a long distance, I assume you’ll be doing other traveling and looking around, so even if the reunion doesn’t turn out to be the high point, you can still have a neat trip. This year is my 40th, but since I went to a boarding school overseas and haven’t been in touch with it in ages, there probably isn’t any reunion to be missed.
Love your header! And also your great post. Like so many who have already commented, I would NEVER go to any high school reunion. That’s because I went to two different high schools. The first one was an all-girls’ Catholic school in California where you were either in the clique or an outsider. I was always the latter. The school is now a home for retired nuns. The other school I went to where I graduated was in Tehran, Iran, so I won’t be going there anytime soon. I never kept in touch with anyone because everyone, including myself, was always on the move and there was no Facebook back then. Congrats on being freshly pressed.
I had to laugh about the “winning a prize” statement. At my five year reunion, my husband and I cleaned house on the prizes. We won for having the most kids, for the biggest age difference and for living the closest to the parents. It is really nothing to brag about. We got a bag of diapers, tickets to a movie and something else. The gifts did not out weigh the embarrassment.
What a great post! I like your writing style. Only a month ago, I attended my 38th high school reunion — we didn’t want to wait for 40! The evening was interesting, entertaining, and too short. But, alas, the same boys who ignored me in H.S. were still ignoring me — 38 years later. But I reconnected with some fabulous women friends — definitely worth the price of admission. Enjoy your reconnection.
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You are a braver woman than I. I can’t even imagine attending a reunion, although I’ll bet it’s going to be a total hoot. Have a wonderful time. I enjoyed your post & loved your picture. Go get ’em!
Congratulations on being freshly pressed, and I’m so glad I’ve found your blog. I love your comment about being pretty sure you were there (in high school). I’ve only been back to one reunion so far (I think we are about the same age) and I swear I didn’t know who those old ladies were.
Great post!
I just went to my 30th reunion. For those 4 years of high school, I thought I knew those people, really knew who they were and what they were about. Hearing what they remember and where they are now makes me realize that I didn’t know them well at all. Was it youthful confidence then? Or do we ever really know anyone?
love this post! I can’t wait for my reunion!
It will be interesting to see what people have made with there lifes. i am sure you will have a good time 🙂
Not sure why, but I am going to my 40th HS reunion tonight. I don’t expect any of my friends to be there. I’ll try to socialize with strangers I haven’t seen in 40 years, with whom I have nothing in common except going to school together for 4 years. Someone once told me that if you look good (I think I do) and turned out good (I think I did), you might as well go!
BTW – went to the reunion and was glad I did. Had a great time. Now I won’t be afraid to go at 50 years, although judging by the looks of some of the classmates, they might not all make it by then.
You know, I think it’s really interesting seeing how much everyone changed, what they do etc. 😀
If my class had a reunion, I would probably attend it.
I loved this post! I have been out of school 5 years only — i cannot imagine fifty!! I hope it is very special and wonderful — do let us know!! xxx
Not going to my reunion. High school was a nightmare, and I’m glad to have those people out of my life.
i loved your post,but for me reunions are always been a special memory altogether.It’s different when you you go to school and come back home each day,but it’s simply fascinating that one gets to live a boarding school.Life with friends is simply amazing.I would disagree with you about loathing teenage years… they are the best years in one’s life..
your reunion should be one of the best.it does sometimes make you nervous that would someone remember you or not but certainly reviving old memories will let go of all the nervousness you have!!!
It has been over 20 years since I was in high school and I have not missed a single person. Didn’t hate it there but didn’t enjoy it either. When it was over life moved on. Last year a fellow student and her husband moved in next door, I mean what are the chances! After the initial catch-up we have rarely spoken, usually just a polite ‘hi’ when we are putting out the bins. I am not an unfriendly neighbour but I just don’t want that old fair-weather friend back in my life! To me school reunion=nightmare!
Good luck on your reunion and congrats on being fresh pressed!
Dude, i am in year 10 atm, (In Australia!!!) I your artical is actually interesting.
Though im not sure i like all the comments about hating being a teenager ;( Stop hating on us!!! just cause we’re cool…
You looked pretty in that old high school photo. Yes, I remember those glasses as my father grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. As for me, it would be nearly 11 years since I completed high school in November 2000. I was glad when I left school after putting up with a year of social exclusion and backstabbing from a bunch of mean girls who did not like me for standing up for my friends than to join their clique which involved being mean to other girls for being different. A year ago, it was the 10th year reunion and I was not invited but I don’t care all that much since those meanies only cared about status and the ‘Code of the Clique Girl’ despite being in their late twenties. I don’t see a chance of attending a 50th when I am 67 because mean people don’t change all that much despite age. Anyway, great post.
We don’t do High School reunions in the UK. It occurs to me that we will soon, though, as we seem to adopt more and more pieces of American culture every year – our Secondary Schools (the equivalent of the US highs) now have ‘Proms’, for example, for which girls buy or hire expensive gowns and the more extravagant parents hire a limo to deliver their darling to the school. This never happened in my day.
I would like to have a reunion, but I would only be looking out for one person – my first love – out of curiosity. That would be a mistake but I would turn the mistake into a story or a poem.
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My mom recently went to her 60th reunion! She has gone to several, actually, as she has a small group she has remained in contact with… mostly Christmas cards and the like. And it’s only a days drive to the state where she attended H.S. She says the farther in years the reunions are from high school, the better they are – none of that teenage crap! Altho, she did have a good high school experience. I hated high school, and have never gone to a reunion, nor would I want to.
I hope you really enjoy your experience!!
I went to my high school reunion last year. There weren’t very many people there, and I didn’t want to seem anti-social, so I went up to a girl, who I thought went to high school with me, and after talking with her for a couple minutes, I realized she was someone’s wife. Talk about embarrassing! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your glasses :0)
Class of 1963…went to our 40th (an informal picnic) and 45th (standard rented hall affair) and have the 50th approaching. We found that the informal picnic was by far the best and most relaxing. But in both cases, we all found that at this age it’s just nice to connect with anyone who still standing, walking, talking…we all seemed to appreciate that so much. And all seemed to have finally realize that we all felt as if we hadn’t ‘fit in’ in high school…the Frats, the Jocks, the Greasers, the Nerds, the Country Club set, most everyone had felt like an outsider. What an eye opener that was! I hope you have a wonderful time!
Good for you for going. My 50th was earlier this year, and I wasn’t able to make it because we had a trip planned for the same time. When all was said and done, I didn’t really mind missing it, but perhaps I missed something. Enjoy the experience.
Great post! I like it. Have a nice time!
Congratulations on your 50th year reunion!! I didn’t go to school in this area but I live about a mile from N.K.C. high school. One of my classmates wants to have a catered dinner for our 50th in 8 years. I don’t think he’s even been to a reunion, but I haven’t been to most of them either. I wonder if that will ever happen. And now, since it is a small town school, they are consolidated with some other schools, so I don’t even know if they will keep having reunions. Anyway, enjoy your reunion – your blog is fun to read!
Just go and embrace the confusion. Poet Ted Kooser has a column called “American Life in Poetry” — Recently, he posted this Dana Gioia poem:
Reunion
This is my past where no one knows me.
These are my friends whom I can’t name—
Here in a field where no one chose me,
The faces older, the voices the same.
Why does this stranger rise to greet me?
What is the joke that makes him smile,
As he calls the children together to meet me,
Bringing them forward in single file?
I nod pretending to recognize them,
Not knowing exactly what I should say.
Why does my presence seem to surprise them?
Who is the woman who turns away?
Is this my home or an illusion?
The bread on the table smells achingly real.
Must I at last solve my confusion,
Or is confusion all I can feel?
Great read. Thanks a lot. Very cool indeed.
Cheers,
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Wow! I’m from the same area as you! Well, my best advice to you is to just relax and let people come to you (unless you’re feel very adventurous or wanting to mingle). I just took in the sights and and sounds, but did mingle a bit as there were so many I wanted to talk to and visit with that I hadn’t seen since high school. Then again mine was only a 10 year reunion. Best of luck! ^_^ You’ll do fine!
So feel your pain! And I did indeed receive the award for the person who had traveled the furthest–back in 1984. (from Iowa to North Carolina).
Good for you. So far, my 5th year reunion is the only one I have attended.
I would never in a million years, not even if you paid me a million dollars, go back to a high school reunion. I kept in touch with the folks I thought worthy of keeping in touch with and could care a fig for the rest of that lot – people who weren’t kind then, so I doubt much has changed.
High school is a cruel world to live in. I found my freedom and happiness. once I graduated.
You said it well. I agree that high school is a cruel place and I had been there, done that with it nearly 11 years ago. I too am in the same situation as you are and yes, I wouldn’t even want to go back being 17 again. Ever.
I have to plan my class’s 10 yr reunion – should be interesting – great post
MM: My 50th was mostly BORING. The interesting people were those of us for whom high school was not the end of life. Especially the women who, in high school, aspired mostly to marriage and soon!
At the reunion, most were divorced and complaining about the price of almost everything or saying, “Remember when gas was 29 cents a gallon?” Another big interest – gambling! Couldn’t wait for the next bus to the next casino. Mercifully, no alcohol at the reunion or I would have been blitzed. Or, wait… maybe alcohol would have helped.
I haven’t made it to a single reunion yet – guess maybe I’m holding out for the 50th in about 10 years!!! Love the glasses!!
I always view people who organize high school reunions with suspicion: why are they putting so much time and effort to create this event? In a way, these folk haven’t left high school.
I have 24 years and some of my colleagues are dead so you could expect anything worse after fifty years… but good luck! I don’t want to be pesimistic..
High school students are the worst. Anybody over 18 is unimaginably old for them. Well, they will see it all pretty soon for themselves 🙂
Have fun and dazzle them!
Ha! My 40 yr reunion is this Oct … same feelings! Excited but … what was once impressive to me isn’t so much … and was once seemed, mundane is now the most important … Do you think everyone changes like that???
Wow! A 50th high school reunion! I’m sure you’ll have a great time!
If not, just tell them how amazing your life in Australia is, what with your pet wallabies, crocodile-wrestling abilities, and vast knowledge of the Aborigines. What? It’s not like any of your old classmates will ever know that you were stretching the truth a little…they live in Kansas! 😉
Seriously, though, have a great time and enjoying seeing all of your old friends again! Great post and congrats on being Freshly Pressed! 🙂
I made sure I looked exceptionally wonderful and youthful for my 40th – and then found myself overcome with shyness. I hardly approached anyone. All I can hope is that my classmates thought I looked beautiful – from afar.
I’m graduated thirty years this year. 50’s a big one. Have fun and congrats on the FP!
My twentieth high school reunion is coming up in about two months. I’m not attending even if I could – nor did I attend my 10th.
With a graduating class of over 160 students, over half of which I didn’t know or care to know and most of the other half I didn’t like or hang around, why would I want to go?
For the very few handful of people I went to school with that I was on friendly terms, I still keep in occasional touch with a few, and that’s good enough for me.
I didn’t like high school and was glad to be gone. I barely missed anyone and still don’t.
I didn’t go to my 30+ yr. HS reunion. I went to the 2nd yr. and found it already distancing. I did go to an interesting high school (it’s over 150 years old) with a variety of folks.
Anyway, if you go just focus on 1-2 friendly faces and catch up. The rest ….you can look (and be shocked).
Already I find it hard to get used to how guys in my age bracket look like since I hang out with more cyclists who naturally just look more upbeat (and often look, abit younger) because they are outdoors and enjoying it.
I attended our 20th in 1995 (even though I’d been bullied for years in high school) and am very glad I did as I reconnected then with one of my closest friends and we’ve stayed close ever since. I also recently had lunch back in Toronto (I am now 22 years in NY) with one of my big crushes — hadn’t seen him since 1975! — and had a great time. He’s just as lovely a person as ever and his wit blessedly undiminished.
It’s sadly true that some will not have made it. One of our class committed suicide years ago and one of my favorite male friends, a dear funny man, was later diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I just attended my 20th … and I’ll be writing a post about it on my blog soon. It was definitely — hmmm, how to say it — interesting.
😉
Fifty is definitely a milestone! I have a feeling that will be the next reunion year I attend (Big Guy willing, that is…).
Have a great time!
“I’m pretty sure I was there, but there isn’t a lot of evidence. ” Love it. Great post…and I love your photo!
Crystal
A) Your high school picture is ADORABLE!!!! I love it!
B) WOW! 50 years. That’s amazing. You’ll have to post a followup afterwards to see the turnout 🙂
Oh & a current pic next to your high school one would be cute! I love looking at the milestone anniversaries/birthdays in the paper. I wonder what I will look like in 25/250 YEARS? I remember thinking the same thing when I was a little girl. Too funny when life comes full circle!
Cute blog 😉
Okay, sorry I just saw your current pic & YOU DO NOT LOOK like you should be around 68!!! Not one bit. 🙂
Have fun! My Dad is attending his 40th this year… hope it goes well for all.
My 50 year High School reunion was held in 2009, while I was travelling outside Australia.
In the 50 years since leaving school I have lived and worked in many far flung places, and moved back into this area in 2004, to retire from work.
I don’t regret travelling, but I still sometimes wonder “who attended”, “what was discussed – remembered” ?.
Will there be a later reunion ? Probably not.
Who said, “we live a thousand months”, “we sleep one third, we work one third”
Make the most of the one third left to you.
Enjoy.
If my High School graduating class had a reunion (coming up on 45 years) I would be celebrating the fact that I am still alive… not all of my peers made it.
You are not only alive and kicking, but full of stories about your adventures. You should be the hit of the reunion!
Sadly, quite a few of my classmates haven’t made it. It’s a pretty sobering realization to look at the list of people who haven’t. I feel very fortunate indeed. MM
Sometimes it might be the best way
When I was a Kid, I would have paid SERIOUS money to acquire the tidbit that mum was a slacker in school. As for either my brother or I being smarter; HA! If we were, we might have found out that she was such a ne’er do well and could have put up a better argument when the report cards materialized!
Adam