Random* My 20-year high school reunion is next weekend (the planning committee apparently fell behind). Do you guys attend your HS reunions? I skipped the 5-year and 10-year; we didn't have a 15-year, of course. I've had 3 former classmates reach out to get me to go to this thing, but I'm not sure I care. To me, HS reunions are for people who peaked in HS or people who were losers in HS and now have something to prove.

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I have gone to some and skipped others. Why can’t people just go to talk to people they have not seen in years. You clearly have your issues with them already so why are you asking?

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I liked school and I liked my classmates. I peaked in my 30s. Not sure what that has to do with it. Go if you're curious to see people you spent more than a decade growing up with and building relationships with. There's no one else on the planet who had the same formative experiences you all did. Don't go if you don't care. So far only one of us has died.

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Went to 20 but no others. It was interesting to see my former friends grown up.

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I moved into the town at the beginning of 11th grade, whereas most of the class knew each other since kindergarten. I kept up with two people. One had just lost his wife, and the other convinced him to attend. People came over to express their condolences, then turned to me and said, "And you are?", even though I was wearing a name tag. That was 20 years ago, and I never attended another.

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How big was your class?

We didn’t have a 10 year reunion as it was during covid, but our 20 is coming up in a few years so I’ll probably attend. It would be interesting to see what everyone looks like as I don’t have social media and haven’t seen what people have been up to.

I keep up with the people I care about so I don’t really care about going to my high school reunion. I didn’t really want to go to my 10 year and ended up not being able to go even if I had wanted to attend. However, I have agreed to go to my 20 year reunion because my best friend wants to go. It should be interesting. With facebook, I feel like I have a decent idea of how everyone is doing. I also do have a few high school classmates at EY so I still see some of them from time to time.

Went to my 10 and my 20 this past year. 15 was canceled due to COVID. Didn’t go to my 5 year because I was embarrassed where I was career wise.

The people who show up now are cool. No more arrogance. The true assholes don’t even show up.

I mean of my core group of friends 3 of them are from my HS class

Yea go. Don’t worry that you’ve not done as well as others. No need to make excuses.

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