My 25-year class reunion was held recently. Twenty-five years!! Scary thought isn’t it. There are some days where high school doesn’t seem like it ended all that long ago, but then on other days it seems like an eternity since I last closed my locker.
However, I did not go to this swinging soiree. Why not? It’s pretty simple, really – I didn’t want to! In fact, I haven’t been to any of them, nor do I plan on going to any in the future. I have no great need to do this, plus out of the people that have actually gone to it (and I have looked at the photos online) I truly, honestly remember only ONE person from the class, the only one I still keep in contact with. Sitting next to a bunch of people I don’t recall does not sound like fun to me. Besides, most of my friends from high school were in the year behind me, so they wouldn’t be at this gig anyway.
I know some folks would say its fun to go just so you can “remember the good times you had in school!” My response: really?!? I think the problem here is that most people go to one school for four straight years. This didn’t happen with me; I went to THREE high schools. The first one was great, I loved it, and if it had actually stayed open I would have graduated from there, but it closed down. The second high school I attended I absolutely HATED. After only one semester there, my grades plummeted because I just didn’t care anymore. My mother took one look at my report card and literally marched into the school and pulled me out of class.
By the time I transferred to the school I eventually graduated from, all of my priorities had changed. I was no longer interested in taking part in the Student Council, no National Honor Society, etc. I didn’t mind being in the choir or on the honor roll, but it wasn’t a big deal anymore. My new goal was get the diploma, and get the f*** out. I did that in 1984 and have never looked back. So…”remembering the times we had in high school”? Pfeh. Why on earth would I want to remember all of that? No thanks.
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