WELL
I went to my class’s 17th reunion (for some reason there weren’t any before then and had a good time).
I went to the 20th. It was right at our school, you walked into the cafeteria and got on line to get your credentials. I ran into some people I liked, I was on the periphery of most of the action, just like 20 years before and for about a half hour I felt like I was 18 again.
I missed the 25th and 35th because I lived too far away and couldn’t spare the time.
I really wanted to go to my 40th in June 2007, wait until you are 58 years old and want to see how everyone’s life turned out, but the reunion was on the same exact day at the same exact time that my son was graduating from high school, only 660 miles away, so that was a no-go. I received a bunch of pictures from some friends who went and who said the social dynamics were just like high school. Your friends then were who you hung with at the reunion.
I am sorry that I missed it and making the 50th is a different proposition.
In 1986 I ended up at a job with a man who graduated the same year I did and we had totally different perspectives about our high school years: I enjoyed high school, it was not without problems, I was socially inept until I got to college but I participated in one sport, did one club and a squad and met a lot of people. This high school had over 3000 students and my class was 950.
On the other hand, my coworker H.L. had a miserable time in high school, during the very same years I was there. Funny how things work out.
SRM