25th High School Graduation Reunion

I went to my 25th Anniversary of high school graduation. There were only 125 of us who graduated in our class. Many turned up: after all, we'd opened up different schools all through our neighbourhood from elementary to high school, so we were a tight group.

It was excellent to find out about everyone. However when I first walked in to the reception area, I could not believe I was in the right room: everyone there was so old!! It was eerie to see how we were no longer the young fresh faces we remembered. The first thing I did when I got home was ask my kids about that phenomenon: did I look old too? Well, don't EVER ask your kids that! They told me I didn't look OLD old, but of course I looked old to them, I am their Mom! LOL!!

Some of the guys who'd worn the longest hair in high school were bald!! The fanciest dressers were still well dressed, the greatest speakers were still excellent speakers, the intellectuals were still smart, the comics were still funny -- and the goofballs had pretty well settled down into domestic bliss: but we were all older, wiser, and quieter! But it was fabulous seeing everyone again. We'd seen each other at our 10th Anniversary, so it wasn't quite the problem identifying each other as it might have been.

I was goofing around with some of the guys I'd kicked around with in high school when one of my buds said to me that I hadn't changed: I was still the fun-loving, happy-go-lucky and lovable gal I'd always been. I could have kissed him right then and there. What a huge boost for me: if he only knew all the stuff I'd gone through in my life and how hard I'd worked to come back to the me I am now, he'd know how much that compliment meant.

If ever you have the opportunity, absolutely, attend your high school reunion. You’ll have a lot of fun with your high school colleagues: you might even meet some you didn't know then but would like now. There are wonderful memories to look at in the yearbook, fabulous stories to read in the histories and see in the pictures that people send in, neat things to discover about your classmates' activities since graduation, and much more to discover about yourself too.

Go -- it's the time of your life!