Would you (have you) go to your high school reunion?

[Cash In 23,419]

I'd consider it, though HS reunions aren't really a thing over here. Despite some of the obnoxious people that I'd rather never see again, there were some alright ones as well.

[GodlyWolf Gusty 2,340]

I did nor go to my first one and now I live in another state. So probably not going to the second one either

[Ocean Breeze 5,298]

I dunno, probably not.

Depends on if anyone I like is going or not.

[Clawdeen 25,627]

I will only go if it ends up being a giant musical number like High School Musical. I am ready to fight for the role of Sharpay.

[ZiggWheelsManning 15,566]

If my intelligence was at an all-time low and had to attend classes  

[Antiyonder 1,559]

At best only to get out for a bit.  But as I didn't live in my current location until later half of tenth grade I don't count on being remembered much.

[Brony Number 42 10,098]

No way. I skipped my 20th and the only person I care to talk to I already talk to.

[Retro*Derpy 3,738]

I checked up on my class last year, and to not a big surprise most of them are in prison. Not that I would want to go anyway

[Treeglow Flicker 14,505]

A reunion with mortal enemies? No, I don't think so.

[Ice Princess Silky <3 20,140]

That would be amazing! I love people and seeing updates on their lives and how they would reflectupon their past and past decisions.

[StarHeart333 1,775]

It would depend on when it came to me and if I felt ready for it or not. 

If I felt ready for it sure but if the timing was bad then probably not.

Overall most likely I would probably avoid going as I prefer to look more into the future. Leave the past behind me and move on. The good and bad that happened in highschool will always be in my memories but in past is where such should stay. 

Time to focus on new relationships, new ventures etc I feel.

 

 

[Clawdeen 25,627]

Last I heard like two years ago the guy who was supposed to organize that just never did so we never had one.

If my class did actually end up having one then they didn't even invite me. Which screw y'all anyways I wouldn't have went.

[Snoopy Fan 13,294]

I don’t think so. I’m not a big party guy.

[Spark Thunderbass 2,007]

It's now been 10 years ago since I've finished high school, also the time when I first joined this forum, and I'm still hoping that there will be a reunion happening, I miss some of the classmates from all these years ago, and would certainly like to catch up with them again.

[Longhaul 9,933]

No.

I had a miserable time in high school, so why would I want to go back and reminisce about that with people that wanted nothing to do with me back then?

[JPete 1,503]

“I'd rather go to a funeral than into this high school reunion“🎶

Technically that’s what happened. I attended a funeral for our high school Father who passed away, saw some old friends…or more like so-called friends who don’t even remember me. Oh well. We all changed.

[Fluttershutter 3,439]

Why would anybody???  

[ExplosionMare 27,153]

I have no desire to since I've moved on from just about everybody there.

[Night Sky 1,359]

I went to the five year, and the ten year. 

I skipped the 15 year. 

I went to the 20 year, but it was delayed because of Covid...

I am on the fence about bothering with the 25th, if it even happens, and that is an if, it's gonna be an expensive black tie thing.

[Luciferase 41]

Nah, I was going through A LOT during High School and would much rather leave the past in the past. I'm in a much happier, better place now, mostly thanks to no longer having to be in that hellhole amongst other positive life changes, so no need to go digging up stuff I've long-since made peace with and laid to rest.

Besides, most everyone in my graduating class bailed the SECOND we all got our diplomas and the ceremony ended, so I don't think there's even enough of us still in the area for it 

[Ishmael 77]

I didn't graduate high school, and didn't think I'd want anything to do with it after leaving. Like most posters in the thread, I didn't have a great time, and one traumatic experience pushed me to college early. But the amount of unfinished business I had made me curious after a decade or so, and with social media in the mid-to-late-aughts, I was surprised to reconnect with people who I barely remembered but who had positive memories of me.

What spurred me to my 20th high school reunion was a friend a grade ahead of me. Attending his 20 year, he had a long and transformative experience with a classmate who'd been his mortal enemy. The mortal enemy was one of those kings of high school--football captain, student council president, highly sought by the opposite sex, lionized by the school, incapable of doing wrong. In actuality, this person was a racist bully who got away with everything. My friend reported that twenty years on, this racist bully was utterly transformed, working as a community organizer in the worst parts of Baltimore. They talked at length of what had caused the transformation. The biggest thing was "getting away from my John Birch Society dad," former bully said. 

This was so striking I decided to go to my 20 year a year later. A couple bullies apologized for how they treated me, which was so weird I didn't process what happened until a friend explained it afterwards. The other striking thing was three attractive women who approached me with stars in their eyes professing how much they admired me, but then disappeared into the crowd, never to be seen again. 

I thought I'd made some connections with a few people, but they all faded away over the next year. I've learned to not bother chasing people who won't respond to friendly overtures, so didn't think too hard about it. I live two time zones away, in a very different ambit, and don't have any ties to my high school town, so I suppose it's natural for that to have happened. 

My oldest friend went to the 30 year, but reported he just avoided losers and weirdos too eager to talk to him. The exception was a woman who had been widely considered the most beautiful in our class, cheerleader, prom queen, on and on. She had a long conversation with him. Life after high school hadn't been kind to her, but she was holding her own. 

At the time, I described going not as fun or enjoyable, but revelatory and satisfying. It proved people can grow and change, though many don't, or can't. 

 

[DubWolf 20,301]

Heheh, saw a meme on FB about how these reunions are really just about finding out if your other former classmates have "made it in life". Sort of. Like, if they were such good friends, why haven't you seen them now? I'd argue though that, you've just fallen out of contact after so long.... I certainly don't see it in such a negative light. Not everybody was a best friend, but not like everybody I knew wasn't someone I wasn't happy been acquainted with.