High school class reunions

[Gnarwhal]

Surely we've all either already had, are having, or are close to having a milestone class reunion. Is/was it a big deal for you, your friends, and your classmates? For those who already had theirs, did you go? Did you enjoy it? What was it like?

For those whose reunion is on the horizon, are you going? Are you looking forward to it? If you're going but not excited about it what made you decide to go?

I was class of 2005 so my 20-year is coming next summer. I was talking about it with my three best friends and none of them are going. One of them lives abroad so I can understand that, but the other two have always been the sort who are just religiously opposed to visiting the past. I thought about going but I'm not so sure since I don't think many of my friends will be there, and honestly I'm not really sure I want to catch up with whoever's left. I went to a big school, my graduating class was over 500 and I'm not sure how many of them I want to see.

I didn't go to my 10-year, everyone says that one's a waste cause most of us have barely started our careers and lives post-college so not much has changed but at 20 that's when most of us are now married, have multiple kids, careers are established and we've all more or less settled down.

My dad has his 60th reunion that same year, he jokes that at that point you go just to let everyone know you're still alive.

 

[peaceful-forest]

I'm sure my high school has already had one for my class, but I don't look or even go.

I did not have a good high school experience and I honestly don't care if I see them ever again. The friends I had from high school, I don't have anymore.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

My 10-year was an absolute disaster. My 20-year is coming up soon. I am still in communication with quite a few friends. But is it really worth it? I honestly do not know.

 

[DragonFox91]

Mine was going to be the COVID year but they cancelled.

I wouldn't have gone anyways. High school was rough for me

 

[Shane R]

Class of 2003. There have been reunions planned at 10 year intervals. The first was a joke and all of the plans were scrapped. The few people who showed up ended up going to a low-brow bar. I think there were maybe still a lot of hard feelings at that interval. I'm told by older folks that the cliques and all of that break down with time. I was at sea or about to go to sea.

2023 went off slightly better but again, much of the itinerary was scrapped late in planning because there didn't seem to be that much support. I initially planned to go but when I saw it was going to be another haphazard mess I ignored it. I also left the common group where such information is shared.

If anyone from my class of 154 wants to contact me, I'm not hard to track down. I've had a moderately public persona for several years now. Frankly, I don't think reunions mean what they did in the past.

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I've never had any interest in going to mine. Anyone who wants to contact me may easily do so via Facebook.

 

[RileyG]

Class of 2014. Don’t have any interest because they treated me like garbage. Blah.

 

[Owlette]

Surely we've all either already had, are having, or are close to having a milestone class reunion. Is/was it a big deal for you, your friends, and your classmates? For those who already had theirs, did you go? Did you enjoy it? What was it like?

For those whose reunion is on the horizon, are you going? Are you looking forward to it? If you're going but not excited about it what made you decide to go?

I was class of 2005 so my 20-year is coming next summer. I was talking about it with my three best friends and none of them are going. One of them lives abroad so I can understand that, but the other two have always been the sort who are just religiously opposed to visiting the past. I thought about going but I'm not so sure since I don't think many of my friends will be there, and honestly I'm not really sure I want to catch up with whoever's left. I went to a big school, my graduating class was over 500 and I'm not sure how many of them I want to see.

I didn't go to my 10-year, everyone says that one's a waste cause most of us have barely started our careers and lives post-college so not much has changed but at 20 that's when most of us are now married, have multiple kids, careers are established and we've all more or less settled down.

My dad has his 60th reunion that same year, he jokes that at that point you go just to let everyone know you're still alive.

Hey, did you end up going?

My 20 year was this past summer too. I kind of wanted to go, but they ended up moving the original date they had in August, to Labor Day weekend, and I ended up not going. I found out that none of my friends went anyway. I kind of want to go to one eventually, just to see people again, but I think only 20 people out of over 300 went this time, even with it being the 20 year. It seems most people in my class don’t care about going. Kinda sad, lol.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Hey, did you end up going?

My 20 year was this past summer too. I kind of wanted to go, but they ended up moving the original date they had in August, to Labor Day weekend, and I ended up not going. I found out that none of my friends went anyway. I kind of want to go to one eventually, just to see people again, but I think only 20 people out of over 300 went this time, even with it being the 20 year. It seems most people in my class don’t care about going. Kinda sad, lol.

Nah I didn't go, it was kind of the same situation as you. Our classes sound pretty similar actually, I think all of my friends have no sentimentality towards high school or anything else from their lives growing up here. None of my friends went, they all live in other states or countries. Plus they (the coordinators) made it "too much". Like Friday night was our high school's homecoming football game so they arranged for everyone to go to that. Then Saturday was a family picnic in the park, and Saturday night was the actual reunion party at the event space of a local restaurant.

I just couldn't justify any of it, especially since I work seven days a week anyway. I wasn't gonna take unpaid time off or burn a sick day to go to something where most of the folks wouldn't know or remember me.

Maybe I'll go to my 30th or 40th. By then my kids will be easier to leave with a sitter (or they won't need one at all), at the time they were 2.5 and six months and leaving them with my parents or step kids is tough cause the kids are a handful.

 

[Owlette]

Nah I didn't go, it was kind of the same situation as you. Our classes sound pretty similar actually, I think all of my friends have no sentimentality towards high school or anything else from their lives growing up here. None of my friends went, they all live in other states or countries. Plus they (the coordinators) made it "too much". Like Friday night was our high school's homecoming football game so they arranged for everyone to go to that. Then Saturday was a family picnic in the park, and Saturday night was the actual reunion party at the event space of a local restaurant.

I just couldn't justify any of it, especially since I work seven days a week anyway. I wasn't gonna take unpaid time off or burn a sick day to go to something where most of the folks wouldn't know or remember me.

Maybe I'll go to my 30th or 40th. By then my kids will be easier to leave with a sitter (or they won't need one at all), at the time they were 2.5 and six months and leaving them with my parents or step kids is tough cause the kids are a handful.

That sounds very similar to my class too! I also had a hard time justifying going with having a 9-month old at the time too. I wanted my husband to come with, and the class reunion was right around her bedtime, so it really wouldn’t have worked well anyway. Totally agree with you, maybe the 30 or 40 year will work better with having older kids!

 

[RileyG]

I've never had any interest in going to mine. Anyone who wants to contact me may easily do so via Facebook.

Same! I have most of them blocked though! Lol