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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsJust got word that my 60th high-school reunion is ON!
It will be in September, so surely all the old people will be fully vaccinated. It's in Louisiana, though, so there might be some anti-vaxxers; I'm not going to hug anybody if I can help it.
Funny how time is the great equalizer. I was never a popular girl, but I'm still here. In a class of hundreds, I am the youngest, at 76.
mobeau69
(11,139 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)It was the first time that she attended a high school reunion! She was so happy about seeing them (the survivors) again!
I doubt that she would've done it during a pandemic, but possibly... if there were safety measures in place.
Croney
(4,657 posts)It provided a sense of closure for me, and I saw my classmates as just other humans living their lives.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... nonsense during the later reunions too. That's my suspicion anyway.
Mom said that everybody was happy to just see the survivors again!
WE had a 'mini-'Zoom Thursday, and had a genuine 50-something' back in the day.
AND had a 70th birthday(s) party @ my house 5 years ago!!!
Croney
(4,657 posts)mia
(8,360 posts)Highschool reunions are one of life's highlights.
Croney
(4,657 posts)there are a few liberals like me and we seek each other out, although nobody actually talks politics. At the 55th, somebody beat me out in the number-of-great-grandchildren contest, but my minions have been reproducing lately so maybe...
rsdsharp
(9,162 posts)Same assholes, same shit, different decade.
My fiftieth is next year. Well see.
Croney
(4,657 posts)they will be in wheelchairs or using canes or...and this actually happened at my 55th...being wheeled into the hall in a hospital bed! I lost a lot of resentment and bitterness when I saw that aging had leveled the playing field, and I realized how lucky I've been. I hope you go.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)My mother said that pretty much everybody had various health problems, aches and pains, and other similar problems to discuss at her 60th reunion. The empathy among each other was probably higher than past reunions.
doc03
(35,324 posts)their f---g money and grandchildren. It's sort of like Faux News you only hear the alternative facts. I was sort of a loner never hung out with any click.
Croney
(4,657 posts)and I want to help turn it by being an example of a life lived differently from theirs.
Paladin
(28,246 posts)Mickju
(1,800 posts)I went to my 50th reunion, but I doubt very much I will attend the next one. There were just not that many whom I actually wanted to see. There were too many trying to show off how rich and successful they were and many who obviously had had plastic surgery.
Croney
(4,657 posts)The only blatantly vain person at my 55th was an old geezer rocking a crooked toupee.
If you go, you'll have a big thing to brag about: you're alive and able to attend. Some of those braggarts won't be.
Mickju
(1,800 posts)but many in the district were. George W. Bush lives in that district now. One of my friend's father was president of an oil company. We had a nice house but barely scraped by. I guess you can figure out it was Dallas. lol I have already outlived many of them.
onethatcares
(16,165 posts)I moved out of my parents house with 22 days to go in 12th grade. The administration would not allow me to take my finals or graduate with the class.
Never really felt like I should go to any "reunions"