Way past my bedtime of 8:00 p.m. I didn't plan to stay for the whole event and I tried to take precautions in the beginning but then it got very difficult. Especially with the loud music, people couldn't hear me through my mask. I just pray I don't get covid-19 because there was some people that had no social distancing.
The reunion was so surreal. I'm not sure how to describe it. Really hard to recognize people unless I saw their yearbook photo. Whereas myself, for some reason people easily recognized me and said I hadn't aged. I went with a black dress that I had bought 15 years ago but never had worn before, I didn't have an event to wear it to. It was the accessories that really put it together. Who would have thought that black and blue could go together. But it did.
The most surreal thing of the evening was when somebody came over to me to talk badly about someone who slandered her reputation in recent years. If I hadn't heard it from another friend some years ago, I might not have believed it. When I saw the person she was speaking of, I was shocked how much she changed.. we had gone to the same private Junior high together. She had gone on to be a cheerleader in high school, and we no longer were in the same circles.
Later on, I went to the ladies restroom, and the person I was waiting on came out and it was her. I quickly called her by name in surprise. Knowing what I had heard of her, I was very careful. Asking a little bit about her background, another gal came over that I did not recognize and only looked at the other gal. She would make no eye contact with me, like I was beneath her. And like why are you wasting your time with this person? We talked for a short couple minutes about where we were working and our backgrounds... The smiles were cordial.. and she left with telling me that I should look her up on social media. But I got this erie feeling, she was looking for dirt to dig up on me... It was the weirdest thing, she said it so sweetly and inviting. I have to wonder how many others she has made that invitation to. As I was leaving for the evening, I caught her staring at me.. and I don't think it was a friendly. Something I will have to pray on, she was not the only one, there were other women there that gave me the nose that I was very surprised.
But at the same time, I was so grateful for those individuals that called out my name, and I could not recognize and make a connection with them. Or the friends I had already established at the last 25-year reunion that I was able to reconnect with. I took air breaks quite often during the event. I don't do so good with mingling for extended amounts of time. But I think it has to do with the crowd. I felt before going that I would be judged and during there was a little bit of that. So much to process, but at the same time I made some new old connections.
And I'm pretty sure that someone also that I believe is a Christian, asked me out for dinner. I'm not so sure about that person because I was not impressed at the 25 year and I thought he was married before... Time will tell, we have a mutual friend that is a Christian.
