MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

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What can I say about my 20th class reunion last night? Out of a class
of over 500 graduates, only about 50 showed up... and *none of them*
were the kids I had talked to or hung out with or were lab partners
with or anything! I don't know that I'd label everyone there as The
Popular Kids, but they were all of a crowd other than mine. So instead
of walking through the crowd, seeing a face and exclaiming, "Hi ___!
Good to see you! What have you been doing with your life?," my old
buddy C. and I sat at a table and chatted, walking through the crowd
every once in awhile to see if Someone We Knew had shown up yet, and
then continuing our chat.

It was kinda comic, kinda depressing, kinda puzzling, ya know?

The real bonus and saving grace of the whole reunion thing is that it
was the impetus for C. and I to get back in touch. We had fallen out
of touch several years ago when kids came along, but now she is on
email (such an easy form of communication for busy moms!), and we got
together with our kids a few weeks ago (mentioned in a previous blog)
and everyone got along smashingly well. This new start-up to an old
friendship has been truly rewarding, and it was well worth it to shell
out $50 for a sucky reunion. And even though it wasn't a Reunion for
us of old classmates and buddies (felt like we were at someone else's
reunion!), it was a Reunion for our friendship, and I had a great time
catching up with C., joking about our past and filling each other in
on our Now Lives. In that respect, I had a great time!

The set up of the reunion was actually nice-- decent food, door
prizes, a video presentation showing old high school footage and the
principal and some teachers we had reminiscing. I do applaud those who
put in the work to assemble the reunion. Still, I'm left with
lingering questions...

Why did so many people choose not to go? The 20th reunion is supposed
to be a biggie, with everyone now much wiser and letting down their
guard. I didn't find that to be the case. Was the price prohibitive--
$50 for reunion plus dinner, not including spouses (we left ours at
home)? Did people just not care? It all remains a mystery.

Posted by sapphire at August 16, 2003 12:00 AM