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[Moonchilde]

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@QVCkitty1 wrote:

My 50th is coming up, and I'm not going. My real friends were made in college and in the workplace. I just don't see  the point.

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This ^^^^

Unless you were popular, active in several extracurricular activities and had quite a few friends - i.e. a fair amount of attendees would know you and be happy to see you, and your high school days were memorably happy ones, I don't see the point. Especially if you're not a fairly social extrovert who enjoys superficial party chat with people who are in reality strangers after 50 years.

I'm not meaning to knock those who go and enjoy, but I think only in certain circumstances would many people enjoy a 50 year reunion, vs a 10-15 year reunion.

[FrostyBabe1]

I went to one high school reunion, either the 5 or 10 year one, and haven't gone to another one since. The people that I was friends with and wanted to stay in touch with are still in my life. I hope that everyone else is well and happy, but I don't have any interest in seeing them. The same for college.

[ID2]

Nope when I graduated from high school I vowed never to go back...never. And I never have. 

[Trinity11]

I prefer to remember people as they were and put that time in my life in a time capsule never to be visited again.

Somewhat like Wordsworth's

(Poem #1173) Splendour in the Grass

 What though the radiance
 which was once so bright
 Be now for ever taken from my sight,
 Though nothing can bring back the hour
 Of splendour in the grass,
 of glory in the flower,
 We will grieve not, rather find
 Strength in what remains behind;
 In the primal sympathy
 Which having been must ever be;
 In the soothing thoughts that spring
 Out of human suffering;
 In the faith that looks through death,
 In years that bring the philosophic mind.

-- William Wordsworth

[Scooby Doo]

What I found is that the same cliques are still there, the same people sit together.  The last one I went to, the committee sent out a questionnaire to hand in asking all kinds of personal questions, i.e., what's your degree, how much do you earn, how many kids, grandkids do you have, what kind of recreational vehicles do you have, on and on.  Still playing one-up.  I went to a school with kids from elite parents, and they didn't get over it.

Once I ran into a school mate in a grocery store.  I tried having a short conversation with her and she was snippy.  Her response was "well, I guess your memory is better than mine."  Yeah, don't need it.  High school was a longgggg time ago and I'm over it.

[Bri21]

I had no desire to go to any reunion.   I run into people from time to time that I went to high school    My kids went to high school with some of the kids of people I went to high school with    That's good enough.  Lol

[Desertdi]

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@Scooby Doo wrote:

What I found is that the same cliques are still there, the same people sit together.  The last one I went to, the committee sent out a questionnaire to hand in asking all kinds of personal questions, i.e., what's your degree, how much do you earn, how many kids, grandkids do you have, what kind of recreational vehicles do you have, on and on.  Still playing one-up.  I went to a school with kids from elite parents, and they didn't get over it.

Once I ran into a school mate in a grocery store.  I tried having a short conversation with her and she was snippy.  Her response was "well, I guess your memory is better than mine."  Yeah, don't need it.  High school was a longgggg time ago and I'm over it.

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@Scooby Doo   Oh.....I've run into a couple of "those", too!    PHD's with a mansion on The Lake......    VP of "The Big Bank".........     and on and on...............

[LTT1]

@Yardlie@Desertdi@Bri21@Scooby Doo@Trinity11

We went to DHs 50th in November and it was FUN!

FaceBook has put us both in touch with the past. New friendships have been forged.

Do I want to go to my own? NO LOL It is nice for me to find out that girls I went to hs with turned out to have productive and happy adult lives. The girls in "the cliques" are not included here (I don't care if I never see those girls again)

DH is thrilled to have found out that the girls had seen him as "eligible" and wanted to date him back then! He said he sure wished he had known this!

His reunion was held in San Antonio (hs located there), so the wives loved the ambiance and shopping.  And the wives of his buddies were FUN.

Again, I'm not sure I'd ever go back to one of mine... it wouldn't be a fun trip.

My answer: it depends!

[Yardlie]

@Stormygirl... Sounds like we're in the same boat!

[Yardlie]

@Moonchilde ... I didn't even enjoy the 10 year! It was like everyone was trying to show off about where they went to college, if they owned their own house, if they had children, what kind of car they had, what kind of job they had....blah, blah.

I would assume people would be more realistic at a 50 year reunion, but they would for the most part be strangers to me. Not my thing.