10 Year Class Reunion…Where?
- Sep 6, 2017
- 3 min read
I still can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I have graduated from high school. I feel as though time has pass by so quickly. I remember watching Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion movie 20 years ago. Wait….I still can’t believe this movie came out a month and five days 20 years early [mind bottling]. I graduated class of 2007 [007 in my James Bond voice] and the fact in 10 years I would see classmates again. I can say not everybody made it to 10 year (lost three people along the way). The crazy thing about class reunions is that 75% doesn’t even get put on. I didn’t want that to happen to my graduating class. I wanted to see people that I haven’t seen in ages. People that may not have social media (or don’t post that often). Just for one night be in the same room, going back in time to those days without responsibility. I can say that my graduating class, we are a statistic. No reunion.
That’s a hard pill for me to sallow or better yet for me to type these words out. There are many reasons that my class reunion failed as well as the poor excuses as to why such as:
“We have social media, so we really don’t need one.”
“We can do all communication online, on our own time to plan it.”
“Nobody is not participating in polls”
“We can just have a ‘Meet Up’.”
“We have to move the date again.”
I could go on and on but I have the conversation records to back up any claims to the blog post if anybody from my graduating class has any questions (or read this blog post). I keep paper trail as evidence. I make sure of that.
It’s really unfortunate that not only will I not have a high school reunion, but the fact that grown people can’t work together and plan something without making it about themselves and the “I” factor. I saw a couple of my friends that I went to college posting pictures of their class reunion and I’m not going to lie I had mix emotions. The one that pulled on my heart was when I saw my friends back in the Bay Area posting reunion pictures. I posted a status about it and just wished for those two minutes that I would have graduated as a Jaguar instead of a Wolfpack. I moved in the middle of my freshman year of high school to the Central Valley (Bakersfield).
The thing is that I’m not alone in this reunion business. I had a friend who class reunion didn’t happen either. The thing is that not everybody is cut out to plan something like this. If you can’t plan an event like this don’t commit to a project like this. Don’t commit to something and negate it entirely, complain about it, make excuses and giving people false hope. That what it was false hope. Time wasted that could have been put to something more useful. In the end, I will have to accept this for what it was. I can always rewatch Romy and Michelle and pretend that it was my class reunion. Let’s see what 20 years will bring, that is if we would ever have one. What I would say is OneSelfers, it’s not the end of the world. Yes, it would have been fun, and memorable but sometimes things happen for a reason. Until next time OneSelfers.
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