Bitter Re-you-nion
Last Saturday I attended a reunion of an instituton I had the privelege of being associated with some time ago.
Before I attended, I thought "You know, MY reunion will be different. MY class was above the typical, we were small, we were intimate, we were ALL BUDS. Well that's how I thought I remembered it.
But you know what? It was just like in the movies. The same cliques that hung out in high school clung together, even though most of us in the ten years since we've seen each other last have probably changed enough that the associations that drew them together are completely irrelevant. Most of them really couldn't care less that I was there. I don't care about a lot of them any more than I did in high school, and many of them less, so I guess I can't blame them.
It's just so ARBITRARY. Just becuase we were forced to spend four (or twelve) years together just because our parents happened to have jobs in the same area, we are somehow supposed to bond and become lifelong freinds. That's such bullshit. In the last three years I have only talked to one of my friends from school. I really have no interest in going to my next one. They are all just going to be uglier, fatter, have less hair and more kids that they can't help but show pictures of to anyone who happened to make eye contact with at the bar and felt obligated to feign interest in what these otherwise random people are doing with their lives.
There were some notable exceptions. On several occasions I had surprisingly intelligent conversation with a few kids that I really didn't hang out with much in school, people whom I had no ill will for then but I assumed wouldn't really care to see me now. It also was interesting to note that during school I remember having somewhat of a heightened interest in these people, somehow knew that they were a little different, but still went along without much further action. ...
Before I attended, I thought "You know, MY reunion will be different. MY class was above the typical, we were small, we were intimate, we were ALL BUDS. Well that's how I thought I remembered it.
But you know what? It was just like in the movies. The same cliques that hung out in high school clung together, even though most of us in the ten years since we've seen each other last have probably changed enough that the associations that drew them together are completely irrelevant. Most of them really couldn't care less that I was there. I don't care about a lot of them any more than I did in high school, and many of them less, so I guess I can't blame them.
It's just so ARBITRARY. Just becuase we were forced to spend four (or twelve) years together just because our parents happened to have jobs in the same area, we are somehow supposed to bond and become lifelong freinds. That's such bullshit. In the last three years I have only talked to one of my friends from school. I really have no interest in going to my next one. They are all just going to be uglier, fatter, have less hair and more kids that they can't help but show pictures of to anyone who happened to make eye contact with at the bar and felt obligated to feign interest in what these otherwise random people are doing with their lives.
There were some notable exceptions. On several occasions I had surprisingly intelligent conversation with a few kids that I really didn't hang out with much in school, people whom I had no ill will for then but I assumed wouldn't really care to see me now. It also was interesting to note that during school I remember having somewhat of a heightened interest in these people, somehow knew that they were a little different, but still went along without much further action. ...
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