We haven’t had one, but if there were, I would probably go. I was pretty much friends with everyone, and I still stay in touch with a few people I am very close with.
My feelings towards a middle school reunion is pretty much the same as everyone’s feelings towards high school reunion. I would never show up to a middle school reunion. There were some people who tried to do one 10-15 years ago, and I never went, and I never will. The people there sucked. I never want to see them again. If I do then I pretend not to know them and I am pretty sure they do the same.
Is that actually a thing people do?
I think it’s something more for the Boomer generation that didn’t have social media, honestly. My mom and dad loved high school reunions before he passed away.
Especially for the generation of people that rarely moved more than 10 miles away from the city they were born in.
It’s a lot easier to organize a high school reunion when everybody’s living down the street from where they lived in high school.
I moved 5,000 miles away from my hometown and rarely if ever go back, and I have no social media presence, so they couldn’t find me if they wanted to.
No.
I’d moved out of state by the time the first one came around. Seemed like a lot of bother and expense to see people I didn’t keep in touch with otherwise.
Never. For the 10 year I did go to the bar in town where I was certain everyone I was interested in catching up with would be.
After that - pretty much moved on from those people and that town completely.
I guess this year would be the 30 year actually - hadn’t even considered that until replying to this post 🤔
I went to the first one and didn’t enjoy myself. Saw the assholes are now cops and most of the self-proclaimed cool kids were now shilling one MLM or another. Everyone still hung out in the same groups they did in high school. They held a moment of silence for the popular dickhead who got drunk and drowned in a river after high school.
Having not gone to any of my 40-or-so reunions, I feel like they would only get interesting after 20. Maybe 30. That’s long enough for everyone to have finished all the school they’re going to do, for people to have moved beyond their first jobs, or even first careers, and to have experienced enough life to really become their own people.
my 40-or-so reunions
Do you have a reunion every single year?
I think it means the reunion when they’re around 40 years old
No. High school for me was spent with people with which I have nothing in common, so I didn’t keep in touch with anyone there.
I still stumble into people I once knew, and I of course say hi and engage in some chitchat, but nothing beyond that.
No, I never had a close relationship with anyone in high-school. As the gay, neurodivergent kid…I didn’t fit in all that much. I ignored all my reunion invites.
I’m in my 40’s and have never gone to one of my own.
It’s pretty simple. I had one really good friend in high school and about a dozen friends I hung with often. I was in the rebellious out group and didn’t really like the vast majority of the people at my high school, and thanks to social media, I already get to see how boring or train wrecky their lives have become if I ever get curious.
So there’s just no need.
I did, but undercover. It was hilarious!
A lot changed in my life after graduation, including my first name and my surname (the latter due to marriage, the first thanks to deed poll, I always disliked the name my parents gave me…).
A few dear old friends from school knew about me living abroad, about all the other changes going on in my life and since all of us were the weird folks back then, we decided to prank everyone else big time.
So, I went there as a friend of one attending. Fricking no one recognised me. Not a soul. But they kept asking why person x was the only one no one found contact details of online, or any other way of contact. The person they knew just disappeared into thin air after graduation.
A big mystery no one could figure out who wasn’t in on the ruse. Some great theories we’ve overheard that evening included, but were not limited to:
A) dead
B) in prison
C) became a hermit
I stood right next to those people I went to school with for over 10 years, some I knew even longer.
It was a fun challenge for me keeping a straight face for the entire evening while drinks were also involved. Not one person could figure out they knew me in the first place. :D
I can not imagine voluntarily entering the 7th ring of hell.
Never got invited lol. Not that I’d go, I have no interest in mingling with white supremacists. I grew up in a fun area.
Thought about the 10 year then went to see phish instead
No. I kind of forgot they existed. With modern communications, I don’t need to meet up with a bunch of people I don’t care for in order to keep in touch with the handful I do.
I cannot physically escape my high school reunion in this lifetime.
I went to a fairly small school and I was the only one who graduated that year.
So every moment of every day for the rest of my life is my high school reunion.
On the upside though, I was the valedictorian, a fact which has actually helped me get jobs.
I couldn’t wait to get those people out of my life. Why would I want to see them again?
