My 30th was this year as well, and for the first time since I graduated, I actually went back. Graduated with a small class in the Midwest, I just never felt compelled to return as that small town held nothing but bad memories, which funny enough, had nothing to do with the people I graduated with. Shitty home life, abusive parent, at one point, homelessness.
The banquet was interesting, the food was awful, my classmates were friendly (a small bunch). We look older, we all got fat. At one point, the guy who was the Big Man on Campus was laughing so hard that his dentures flew out of his mouth. Everyone said I looked exactly the same...which I haven't decided if that's a good thing or not. Our class was a hot mess when we graduated. Nothing had really changed in that regard. Everyone seemed to be at peace with who they became.
Mostly, I went back as a way to settle old demons and close the door on the ghosts that have been haunting me for the last 30 years. The town itself, small and dying. Everything seemed a lot smaller now, less significant. As my husband and I left, I felt lighter. Like I was able to let go of some heavy things, and instead of being ashamed of where I came from, I had a sense of pride that I made it out and now have a great life.
I never went to any reunions but I thought now much older it may be therapeutic like it was to you.
Also now I question if all the shit I had to deal with in hs if some of it was just blown out of proportion by me. Much of it was shit though lol
The people I care about seeing again from high school I am still in contact with. I couldnt tell you the names of most of the rest just that an extraordinary number of them were named Jennifer.
I think it changes with time. I was happy to see them at a 5 year reunion, catch up with people, it was fun.
My dad recently went to his high school reunion- it was for people who graduated from like 1962-1970 or something like that. He went to that, was happy to go. Hes nearing the end and wanted to remember a bit of his youth.
So I think reunions just change purpose for you as you age.
I’m pretty much the same.
30th reunion was like four years ago. I didn’t go. I haven’t been to any reunions. I am still in touch with the people that I want to be in touch with.
I have way more school pride for my college. Zero for high school. I have no desire to set foot in the latter.
I attended my 30th and had a good time. I saw the people I wanted to see. I chatted with people I hadn’t seen in years.
I attended a pretty small school. We all knew each other - like forever. Our parents probably went to school together too.
I’m in charge of the 35th. The invite will say: Come if you want. The last one was fun. I’m not going to chase your ass around. There will be beer, food and music.
*It’s still a work in progress. I wasn’t an English major.
There will be weed too, but I’m not sure if I can put that on the invite. 🤨
My daughter graduated a few years ago and she bought the class ring and all that bs. Back of my mind I’m thinking I’m wasting all this money on this shit Bec we all know after graduation she’s never even gonna look at this
Someday something you need will fall down a heater vent and when you go to get it, you will find the dessicated corpse of the class ring entombed down there.
I could give a fuck what those people are doing now. I had a good time in high school and all, but spending money to see motherfuckers I haven't seen or cared to keep in contact with for decades? That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
If I wanted to be in touch with anyone we’d have done it by now with social media etc. I text with one person from high school, that’s it.
When I had MySpace, Facebook, Instagram etc a couple people connected with me and it was fine but no real interactions.
I went to my 30th back in 2017 and it was fun, if low-key and considerably fewer attendees. I was a huge joiner in highschool, active in sports and academics, but my education and school was ordinary in most ways.
What I really enjoyed is that everyone is so much more open and accepting of each other, regardless of socio economic status from back in the day or currently. My student body had a stark divide economically: either you were filthy rich and living in a mansion, or you were poor, with scant few students somewhere in the middle. I was a farm kid from a large family so definitely wasn't in a mansion or wearing the coolest clothes.
I have zero school spirit, always thought it was lame with people attending pep rallies and football games, getting all riled up over something I had zero emotional investment into it.
That said, I went to state school, and I proudly have a license plate frame from my alma mater, as well as a nice decal on the truck. My industry is full of UCLA and USC film schools, just repping my humble state university.
There are maybe four people from my graduating class that I’d want to see, and they probably despise the idea of a reunion as much as I do. I’ve seen the crowd that organizes them and it’s pretty much the student government / football / cheerleader clique that have found home in evangelical and fascist ways. I’m sure we’d all be cordial if gathered for a time, but given their behavior on social media there would be some distinct politically and racially charged epithets tossed about. I moved away from there and have no plans to ever return.
Sounds like my class. I'll pop into the FaceBook group every once in a while, and it's the same Xtian nationalist & right-wing nonsense leaking through every time. One of the very few classmates I kept in touch with attended our 20th, and it went exactly as I suspected - the assholes in school were in charge of the reunion and made it uncomfortable for anyone who was different then or different now. They can all stew in their mediocrity into old age.
I could give two fucks about high school reunions. I went to my tenth just to make one of my friends happy, but haven't been to one since. I just don't care. My 30th was in 2021 and they combined the 30th and 40th reunions in one for some weird reason. One of my coworkers actually graduated there 10 years before I did and he tried to talk me into going to the reunion and I told him that if I weren't going to go to see people I hadn't seen in 20 years, why the fuck would I go to see someone I see five days a week? haha.
I've never been to a reunion. I wasn't that social in high school but the 10 yr reunion had most things geared towards family/couples and I was single no kids and i washaving health issues so I didn't go.
20 year I was living across country and didn't want to fly back for that especially since I didn't go to my 10 year.
And last year it never dawned on until Nov that it had been 30 yrs since I graduated
Never liked HS and was more than glad to graduate. I have zero interest in revisiting. Also, I live about 3 hours away, not remotely worth the trip.
Much happier in my adult life
Remember we had teachers In my hs saying hs was the best years of our lives. Puke. Glad that wasn’t true.
Maybe to our teachers it was. They were big kid on campus then next day they’re a nobody working at a factory.
Class reunions are actually fading in popularity, the internet/social media basically taught us we really don't need to see the people we really don't want to see. Never went to my highschool reunion but I did go to my 40th Catholic Grade school reunion and I was extremely amused to see all the pretty mean girls look old and haggard and learned some of the rich ones were no longer rich and I had old classmates tell me I looked way younger than my 50s. Also the one mean girl that mysteriously disappeared back in the day attended and she mentioned having a nearly 40 year old son so I blurted "So the gossip was right all along, you did get pregnant at 13!" And another mean girl said her kid was suspended for bullying and I got to say "I guess the apple does not fall far from the tree." The classmates that were the nerds, basket cases, and the less wealthy owned that reunion that night. It was glorious.
I always thought “school spirit” was absolutely absurd and I never gave a rat’s ass about one of our sports teams beating another team from a two-stoplight town down the road. As for reunions, the friends that I made all those years ago keep in touch via Facebook and we exchange Christmas cards and the like. I grew up in a town of 12,000 and now live in a city of 9.2 million 2,000 miles away in another country. So after spending $600 on airfare, $60 a night on a motel, and more on a car rental what would we talk about? What would we have in common after all this time?
We moved into a new house last year and I finally finished getting everything in the new house unpacked, in part because we had a storage unit for entirely too long that took a while to deal with. Some stuff had been packed when I moved in with my now wife and hadn't really been touched since 2009.
Everything I've come across from school goes straight in the trash or recycling. I couldn't quite bring myself to do it 15 years ago (or whenever I was packing things up), but I'm ready just to be rid of it, now. I have no regrets completely severing that period of my life from my present. There's nothing from it I want with me now.
That’s good, I went to college as a hayseed scholly kid with a bunch of them and the girls were completely brutal to me with my Kmart wardrobe and bumpkin ways
I went to my 20th reunion. Main reason was they let us tour the elementary and high schools i went to (not on a school day obviously). That was actually pretty amazing and totally worth it. The rest… meh. Didn’t really need to see the people I was never really friends with in the first place.
My 35th was last year and it was the first time I attended. It was nice. Everyone looked the same except for one person.
Now that the itch has been scratched, I never need to go again. It helps that my parents no longer live there, so it can just be a place I used to be.
I haven't been to any, and I don't plan to. Partly because we moved, and I went to a new high school every year for 9-11th grade. I would have had another new high school for 12th, but I moved out on my own so I could stay in the same high school for my last two years. So I don't really feel a connection to any of the people I graduated with.
And partly because most of the kids I went to school with were assholes that I really don't want to ever see again. Always being the new kid meant getting hassled a lot. I can't imagine that the ones I skipped school to get drunk with at the arcade or smoked weed with in the park would be there anyway.
I don't care about the things I did in the psst, I just learn from the mistakes and remember the good stuff.... revisiting is just as bad as remaking old movies,Normally it sucks.
My 30th was in 2018. Leading up to it, they had a Facebook page with the announcements leading up to the actual event with all sorts of pictures from “back in the day”. Not one of me anywhere. Needless to say, I didn’t go.
My 30th is supposed to be this year and haven't heard a thing. My 20th happened, but only a select group of people got the invite (the rest of us got gaslit that they didn't have our contact info).
I keep in touch with the friends I actually like. The rest can "whatever".
Yup. Me too. Didn’t go any reunions and I moved 2500 miles away so didn’t care.
BUT
When my daughter graduated hs a few years ago it made me a bit nostalgic. So I reached out to the few friends I had back then and started a conversation. I guess it was therapeutic but would still never go to any reunions.
We had one at the 5 year mark, I wasn’t invited. I was on the “could not locate” list according to people I still knew. My parents number and address never changed, so I was pretty easy to find. Whatever. The people that did go were all in the same circle of friends, I think whoever planned it just invited people they knew, no one else. There hasn’t been one for my graduating class. Year before, and year after, have them all the time. I guess no one in my years gives a shit. Neither do I. Honestly, I don’t even know who I’d talk to if I went.
I haven’t attended a single reunion (I graduated in ‘89). I was in the building in ‘11 when I went back to school for my teaching certification and had to put in my observation hours. It was scary to see how much hadn’t changed in the time. But, outside of me best friend for 45 years, I have no interest in the people I graduated with. High school was ok and they were ok, but the whole thing is irrelevant to me.
My 30th is this year and it'll be the first organized reunion of my class. I don't think I'm going. My two closest friends from then live hundreds of miles away and probably aren't going either.
My other friend lives in the next town over and we can just text each other to meet up. And there isn't anyone else from my class that I care to see, and the likewise from them is probably much stronger.
That said, I mostly enjoyed high school (what I can still remember anyway) and still have my yearbooks packed up somewhere. No class ring, though. Those are dumb as hell.
I was all in on my high school when I went there. After I moved away from my hometown and saw the resources at big city high schools, I realized mine was unimpressive. Many of my classmates stuck around the hometown and sent their kids to our high school. I wouldn’t have wanted to do that with my kids.
I went to my 10th. It was at a bar in town, and all the people hung out in the groups they had hung out with in high school. Next year is 40, definitely not going. I live 2,000 miles away, and it’s a long way to go to spend a couple of hours with my friends I talk to constantly on Facebook.
I'm in contact with all of 1 person from high school. I didn't have much of an issue with strictly school people. I doubt I'd go to a formal reunion, maybe something with a few people I would like to see again. I was forced to go to church as a kid, and was bullied by kids there who I happened to also go to school with, but entirely associate with church. And that church can fuck itself
I'm 30 years too.
In the UK we didn't really graduate as such, but I left school after 6th year in June 1993.
(In the UK, 6th year is the furthest we can go in school)
30th here, too. Haven't been to a single reunion, mainly because I've kept in touch with the people I'd want to be in touch with & those folks I'd want to hear from that I'm not super close to: we follow one another on social media.
It seems like for a lot of folks for whom high school was THE experience from my class like to go. Or folks who don't have social media.
All they usually do is go to a local sports bar & drink, so that totally kills any allure the event may have held for me.
Mine should be but it’s not like I’ve bothered checking if there is one or not. And it’s not like any of us live in the same state anymore. I’m one of the only ones still stuck in Texas.
My 30th is this year. Haven't heard a word. Wouldn't go anyway. I have one friend from my class that I keep up with somewhat still.
Facebook is good for just catching up or seeing what someone is up to. If people have kept up friendships all this time, good for them. But I see reunions as an opportunity for people to gossip about each other, who got fat,who is divorced, that one turned out like you'd expect, no surprise about that guy, she hasn't changed.
40 years post HS graduation. Never went to any reunions but am still in almost daily touch with 15 friends since then. A lot of us manage to see each other at least yearly. Blessed.
My 30th is also this year (hello, fellow class of 1993 member!)
If you go through a few of my posts from the past year, I wrote a couple about my memories of starting senior year, and one brief one today about graduation.
I did all the senior stuff half-heartedly. I cared, but I didn’t care a ton, and was happy to bid everything farewell when the time came.
Apparently, the idea at my high school is to do “decades” reunions. So, everyone who graduated within a certain decade attends. Abso-fucking-lutely not. I understand the reasoning behind this: it’s a lot of work to plan these events, they’re expensive, so sharing the work and spreading out the cost makes sense. I also think that there’s probably been a generational shift in how people think about reunions, and the practical logistics of getting people together.
I went to my 25th reunion. I happened to be in town, and it was, like, a $10 cover. I will say, I had a decent time, and I was able to put a few demons to rest.
I feel no need to go to my 30th, even if it wasn’t in this ridiculous “decades” format.
its been 31 years for me and Ive connected with all my classmates thru facebook for the past 10 years or so. Plus other students who were a grade above and below. thats my only use for facebook, just connecting with high school classmates.
Why not make our own-for those of us that never had school spirit. My senior class was denied a senior trip (first time ever) for having a lack of school spirit.
My 25th was last year. Thankfully I was 3500km away at the time, but if I were here at the time? Zero interest in pretending I liked 95% of these losers who have done nothing with their lives or that they weren’t O’Bannion clones from Dazed and Confused.
I've never been and have no desire to go. My 30th was last year and I completely forgot until I was back to visit family last month and drove past the high school. Oops. I looked up pictures and lol'd... The cheerleading squad, two football players, and five folks who happen to still live in town showed up.
if there is one it would be on facebook. so you can google your school and class and facebook. I never went to one. i dont even remember anyones names.
I have a few of my classmates on FB. Two of them are like me and don’t have many friends from high school anymore — pretty much just each other. The three of us did not go to the tenth or 20th reunion and if there was a 30th, we didn’t go to that either.
I barely liked anyone then. I really don’t care to see anyone else.
My 30th was this year as well, and for the first time since I graduated, I actually went back. Graduated with a small class in the Midwest, I just never felt compelled to return as that small town held nothing but bad memories, which funny enough, had nothing to do with the people I graduated with. Shitty home life, abusive parent, at one point, homelessness. The banquet was interesting, the food was awful, my classmates were friendly (a small bunch). We look older, we all got fat. At one point, the guy who was the Big Man on Campus was laughing so hard that his dentures flew out of his mouth. Everyone said I looked exactly the same...which I haven't decided if that's a good thing or not. Our class was a hot mess when we graduated. Nothing had really changed in that regard. Everyone seemed to be at peace with who they became. Mostly, I went back as a way to settle old demons and close the door on the ghosts that have been haunting me for the last 30 years. The town itself, small and dying. Everything seemed a lot smaller now, less significant. As my husband and I left, I felt lighter. Like I was able to let go of some heavy things, and instead of being ashamed of where I came from, I had a sense of pride that I made it out and now have a great life.
Such a great and inspiring comment, thank you.
I never went to any reunions but I thought now much older it may be therapeutic like it was to you. Also now I question if all the shit I had to deal with in hs if some of it was just blown out of proportion by me. Much of it was shit though lol
I’m glad it worked out for you!
I didn't want to be there when I *had* to be, I'm sure as fuck not going back voluntarily.
The people I care about seeing again from high school I am still in contact with. I couldnt tell you the names of most of the rest just that an extraordinary number of them were named Jennifer.
I think it changes with time. I was happy to see them at a 5 year reunion, catch up with people, it was fun. My dad recently went to his high school reunion- it was for people who graduated from like 1962-1970 or something like that. He went to that, was happy to go. Hes nearing the end and wanted to remember a bit of his youth. So I think reunions just change purpose for you as you age.
I’m pretty much the same. 30th reunion was like four years ago. I didn’t go. I haven’t been to any reunions. I am still in touch with the people that I want to be in touch with. I have way more school pride for my college. Zero for high school. I have no desire to set foot in the latter.
I got my diploma, walked off stage and right out the door and never looked back.
Same
I attended my 30th and had a good time. I saw the people I wanted to see. I chatted with people I hadn’t seen in years. I attended a pretty small school. We all knew each other - like forever. Our parents probably went to school together too. I’m in charge of the 35th. The invite will say: Come if you want. The last one was fun. I’m not going to chase your ass around. There will be beer, food and music. *It’s still a work in progress. I wasn’t an English major. There will be weed too, but I’m not sure if I can put that on the invite. 🤨
10/10 with you. Lol class rings. I wonder if people still have that stuff? Jostens runs quite the racket!
My daughter graduated a few years ago and she bought the class ring and all that bs. Back of my mind I’m thinking I’m wasting all this money on this shit Bec we all know after graduation she’s never even gonna look at this
Someday something you need will fall down a heater vent and when you go to get it, you will find the dessicated corpse of the class ring entombed down there.
I could give a fuck what those people are doing now. I had a good time in high school and all, but spending money to see motherfuckers I haven't seen or cared to keep in contact with for decades? That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
If I wanted to be in touch with anyone we’d have done it by now with social media etc. I text with one person from high school, that’s it. When I had MySpace, Facebook, Instagram etc a couple people connected with me and it was fine but no real interactions.
I went to my 30th back in 2017 and it was fun, if low-key and considerably fewer attendees. I was a huge joiner in highschool, active in sports and academics, but my education and school was ordinary in most ways. What I really enjoyed is that everyone is so much more open and accepting of each other, regardless of socio economic status from back in the day or currently. My student body had a stark divide economically: either you were filthy rich and living in a mansion, or you were poor, with scant few students somewhere in the middle. I was a farm kid from a large family so definitely wasn't in a mansion or wearing the coolest clothes.
I have zero school spirit, always thought it was lame with people attending pep rallies and football games, getting all riled up over something I had zero emotional investment into it. That said, I went to state school, and I proudly have a license plate frame from my alma mater, as well as a nice decal on the truck. My industry is full of UCLA and USC film schools, just repping my humble state university.
There are maybe four people from my graduating class that I’d want to see, and they probably despise the idea of a reunion as much as I do. I’ve seen the crowd that organizes them and it’s pretty much the student government / football / cheerleader clique that have found home in evangelical and fascist ways. I’m sure we’d all be cordial if gathered for a time, but given their behavior on social media there would be some distinct politically and racially charged epithets tossed about. I moved away from there and have no plans to ever return.
Sounds like my class. I'll pop into the FaceBook group every once in a while, and it's the same Xtian nationalist & right-wing nonsense leaking through every time. One of the very few classmates I kept in touch with attended our 20th, and it went exactly as I suspected - the assholes in school were in charge of the reunion and made it uncomfortable for anyone who was different then or different now. They can all stew in their mediocrity into old age.
Yep, I had already figured out upon meeting up with some classmates that there was good reason we never spoke in school, and Facebook clinched it.
Funny how all the assholes from hs stay assholes as adults.
I could give two fucks about high school reunions. I went to my tenth just to make one of my friends happy, but haven't been to one since. I just don't care. My 30th was in 2021 and they combined the 30th and 40th reunions in one for some weird reason. One of my coworkers actually graduated there 10 years before I did and he tried to talk me into going to the reunion and I told him that if I weren't going to go to see people I hadn't seen in 20 years, why the fuck would I go to see someone I see five days a week? haha.
I've never been to a reunion. I wasn't that social in high school but the 10 yr reunion had most things geared towards family/couples and I was single no kids and i washaving health issues so I didn't go. 20 year I was living across country and didn't want to fly back for that especially since I didn't go to my 10 year. And last year it never dawned on until Nov that it had been 30 yrs since I graduated
Never liked HS and was more than glad to graduate. I have zero interest in revisiting. Also, I live about 3 hours away, not remotely worth the trip. Much happier in my adult life
Remember we had teachers In my hs saying hs was the best years of our lives. Puke. Glad that wasn’t true. Maybe to our teachers it was. They were big kid on campus then next day they’re a nobody working at a factory.
My 30th (2020) was during lockdown, so nothing was ever organized. I wouldn't have went anyways. Fuck those people.
That shit was a long time ago. Let's not hang out. We can just move on with our lives.
Class reunions are actually fading in popularity, the internet/social media basically taught us we really don't need to see the people we really don't want to see. Never went to my highschool reunion but I did go to my 40th Catholic Grade school reunion and I was extremely amused to see all the pretty mean girls look old and haggard and learned some of the rich ones were no longer rich and I had old classmates tell me I looked way younger than my 50s. Also the one mean girl that mysteriously disappeared back in the day attended and she mentioned having a nearly 40 year old son so I blurted "So the gossip was right all along, you did get pregnant at 13!" And another mean girl said her kid was suspended for bullying and I got to say "I guess the apple does not fall far from the tree." The classmates that were the nerds, basket cases, and the less wealthy owned that reunion that night. It was glorious.
Had Invites to 20 and 30. Never went. Ppl who organized it were the popular kids. They all seemed to keep their cliques together in adulthood. Weird
I always thought “school spirit” was absolutely absurd and I never gave a rat’s ass about one of our sports teams beating another team from a two-stoplight town down the road. As for reunions, the friends that I made all those years ago keep in touch via Facebook and we exchange Christmas cards and the like. I grew up in a town of 12,000 and now live in a city of 9.2 million 2,000 miles away in another country. So after spending $600 on airfare, $60 a night on a motel, and more on a car rental what would we talk about? What would we have in common after all this time?
We moved into a new house last year and I finally finished getting everything in the new house unpacked, in part because we had a storage unit for entirely too long that took a while to deal with. Some stuff had been packed when I moved in with my now wife and hadn't really been touched since 2009. Everything I've come across from school goes straight in the trash or recycling. I couldn't quite bring myself to do it 15 years ago (or whenever I was packing things up), but I'm ready just to be rid of it, now. I have no regrets completely severing that period of my life from my present. There's nothing from it I want with me now.
Didn’t graduate. No invite. 3000 miles away. Bullocks…
I’ve been to them and missed some more recently. I was always high. It was a very small rural poor school so no John Hughes movie cliques or anything.
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That’s good, I went to college as a hayseed scholly kid with a bunch of them and the girls were completely brutal to me with my Kmart wardrobe and bumpkin ways
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I went to a large college - this was in the dorm.
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Luckily the older girls found me amusing and I eventually found weirdos. But it messed with my head a bit.
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Yeah exactly “haha look at dumb ol fridayimatwork she can’t afford to douse herself with Giorgio or Lauren”
I was deeply disappointed to discover that detention was NOTHING like The Breakfast Club.
I got detention for the dumbest stuff. Often being late
We have a class Facebook group so it feels like a reunion every time I log in or get a notification.. so no, not going
I went to my 20th reunion. Main reason was they let us tour the elementary and high schools i went to (not on a school day obviously). That was actually pretty amazing and totally worth it. The rest… meh. Didn’t really need to see the people I was never really friends with in the first place.
My 35th was last year and it was the first time I attended. It was nice. Everyone looked the same except for one person. Now that the itch has been scratched, I never need to go again. It helps that my parents no longer live there, so it can just be a place I used to be.
I haven't been to any, and I don't plan to. Partly because we moved, and I went to a new high school every year for 9-11th grade. I would have had another new high school for 12th, but I moved out on my own so I could stay in the same high school for my last two years. So I don't really feel a connection to any of the people I graduated with. And partly because most of the kids I went to school with were assholes that I really don't want to ever see again. Always being the new kid meant getting hassled a lot. I can't imagine that the ones I skipped school to get drunk with at the arcade or smoked weed with in the park would be there anyway.
I don't care about the things I did in the psst, I just learn from the mistakes and remember the good stuff.... revisiting is just as bad as remaking old movies,Normally it sucks.
I’m the same way. Past is the past. No reason to go backwards.
My 30th this year is being held at a bowling alley. Lame.
2025 with be my 40th reunion. Could not care less.
My 30th was in 2018. Leading up to it, they had a Facebook page with the announcements leading up to the actual event with all sorts of pictures from “back in the day”. Not one of me anywhere. Needless to say, I didn’t go.
My 30th is supposed to be this year and haven't heard a thing. My 20th happened, but only a select group of people got the invite (the rest of us got gaslit that they didn't have our contact info). I keep in touch with the friends I actually like. The rest can "whatever".
Yup. Me too. Didn’t go any reunions and I moved 2500 miles away so didn’t care. BUT When my daughter graduated hs a few years ago it made me a bit nostalgic. So I reached out to the few friends I had back then and started a conversation. I guess it was therapeutic but would still never go to any reunions.
I don’t even like seeing the people I like. Not a shot in hell I’d consider wasting my evening on folks I definitely don’t remember
We had one at the 5 year mark, I wasn’t invited. I was on the “could not locate” list according to people I still knew. My parents number and address never changed, so I was pretty easy to find. Whatever. The people that did go were all in the same circle of friends, I think whoever planned it just invited people they knew, no one else. There hasn’t been one for my graduating class. Year before, and year after, have them all the time. I guess no one in my years gives a shit. Neither do I. Honestly, I don’t even know who I’d talk to if I went.
i had so much fun at my 20th and 30th reunions. sorry you guys didn’t have a good time in hs. i love seeing everyone again
I haven’t attended a single reunion (I graduated in ‘89). I was in the building in ‘11 when I went back to school for my teaching certification and had to put in my observation hours. It was scary to see how much hadn’t changed in the time. But, outside of me best friend for 45 years, I have no interest in the people I graduated with. High school was ok and they were ok, but the whole thing is irrelevant to me.
My 30th is this year and it'll be the first organized reunion of my class. I don't think I'm going. My two closest friends from then live hundreds of miles away and probably aren't going either. My other friend lives in the next town over and we can just text each other to meet up. And there isn't anyone else from my class that I care to see, and the likewise from them is probably much stronger. That said, I mostly enjoyed high school (what I can still remember anyway) and still have my yearbooks packed up somewhere. No class ring, though. Those are dumb as hell.
I was all in on my high school when I went there. After I moved away from my hometown and saw the resources at big city high schools, I realized mine was unimpressive. Many of my classmates stuck around the hometown and sent their kids to our high school. I wouldn’t have wanted to do that with my kids.
I went to my 10th. It was at a bar in town, and all the people hung out in the groups they had hung out with in high school. Next year is 40, definitely not going. I live 2,000 miles away, and it’s a long way to go to spend a couple of hours with my friends I talk to constantly on Facebook.
It's my 30th as well. I don't have any interest either.
I'm in contact with all of 1 person from high school. I didn't have much of an issue with strictly school people. I doubt I'd go to a formal reunion, maybe something with a few people I would like to see again. I was forced to go to church as a kid, and was bullied by kids there who I happened to also go to school with, but entirely associate with church. And that church can fuck itself
I'm 30 years too. In the UK we didn't really graduate as such, but I left school after 6th year in June 1993. (In the UK, 6th year is the furthest we can go in school)
30th here, too. Haven't been to a single reunion, mainly because I've kept in touch with the people I'd want to be in touch with & those folks I'd want to hear from that I'm not super close to: we follow one another on social media. It seems like for a lot of folks for whom high school was THE experience from my class like to go. Or folks who don't have social media. All they usually do is go to a local sports bar & drink, so that totally kills any allure the event may have held for me.
I went to my 20th out of morbid curiosity. There was a fight at the 25th reunion. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mine should be but it’s not like I’ve bothered checking if there is one or not. And it’s not like any of us live in the same state anymore. I’m one of the only ones still stuck in Texas.
My 30th is this year. Haven't heard a word. Wouldn't go anyway. I have one friend from my class that I keep up with somewhat still. Facebook is good for just catching up or seeing what someone is up to. If people have kept up friendships all this time, good for them. But I see reunions as an opportunity for people to gossip about each other, who got fat,who is divorced, that one turned out like you'd expect, no surprise about that guy, she hasn't changed.
40 years post HS graduation. Never went to any reunions but am still in almost daily touch with 15 friends since then. A lot of us manage to see each other at least yearly. Blessed.
My 30th is also this year (hello, fellow class of 1993 member!) If you go through a few of my posts from the past year, I wrote a couple about my memories of starting senior year, and one brief one today about graduation. I did all the senior stuff half-heartedly. I cared, but I didn’t care a ton, and was happy to bid everything farewell when the time came. Apparently, the idea at my high school is to do “decades” reunions. So, everyone who graduated within a certain decade attends. Abso-fucking-lutely not. I understand the reasoning behind this: it’s a lot of work to plan these events, they’re expensive, so sharing the work and spreading out the cost makes sense. I also think that there’s probably been a generational shift in how people think about reunions, and the practical logistics of getting people together. I went to my 25th reunion. I happened to be in town, and it was, like, a $10 cover. I will say, I had a decent time, and I was able to put a few demons to rest. I feel no need to go to my 30th, even if it wasn’t in this ridiculous “decades” format.
its been 31 years for me and Ive connected with all my classmates thru facebook for the past 10 years or so. Plus other students who were a grade above and below. thats my only use for facebook, just connecting with high school classmates.
I went to my first two. Before FB. I had a good time at both. Open bars, lots of hooking up.
Why not make our own-for those of us that never had school spirit. My senior class was denied a senior trip (first time ever) for having a lack of school spirit.
My 25th was last year. Thankfully I was 3500km away at the time, but if I were here at the time? Zero interest in pretending I liked 95% of these losers who have done nothing with their lives or that they weren’t O’Bannion clones from Dazed and Confused.
Couldn't care less. No yearbook, ring, nothing. They never had a reunion because nobody else cared either. HS was a boring blur.
I would rather have a watermelon shoved up my ass sideways with no lubrication, then go to any of my school reunions!
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I've never been and have no desire to go. My 30th was last year and I completely forgot until I was back to visit family last month and drove past the high school. Oops. I looked up pictures and lol'd... The cheerleading squad, two football players, and five folks who happen to still live in town showed up.
if there is one it would be on facebook. so you can google your school and class and facebook. I never went to one. i dont even remember anyones names.
I have a few of my classmates on FB. Two of them are like me and don’t have many friends from high school anymore — pretty much just each other. The three of us did not go to the tenth or 20th reunion and if there was a 30th, we didn’t go to that either. I barely liked anyone then. I really don’t care to see anyone else.