walking over the precipice.

[katster]

I have been highly ambivalent about going to my high school reunion ever since I first found out about it.

I'm still feeling highly ambivalent despite being just about to head out the door.

It's not that I hated high school, I actually mostly liked it. It's just...well, I was supposed to Be Somebody by now, and that's obviously failed. And it doesn't help that I'm walking in that door alone. :(

*sigh* anyway, off to the shindig.

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[seraphmoon.livejournal.com]

My tenth-year reunion was last year, and I didn't go for pretty much the same reasons. I'd dropped out of university, gotten a technical degree, gotten married, decided that my degree field wasn't the one I wanted to be in, and was living with my parents after getting divorced. Not exactly what I wanted to tell folks about-- not that I liked many of them, anyway.

In retrospect, I wish I'd gone. There were a few people there that I liked and would have wanted to catch up with, and there wouldn't have been anyone there forcing me to list off my failures. And I've done a lot of nifty things, too.

I'm sure you've done nifty stuff; focus on that, and not on the stuff you wish you'd done. No one has to know, and if they ask then you can just shrug and change the subject.

[(Anonymous)]

if it helps at all, I was supposed to return as longest married since I got married literally the day after graduation... instead I'll walk in as once divorced and married for the second time... god I hope with a good job.... yeah. Reunions are stressful. I hope you have a really good time though!! I may base the decision about going to mine on your experience.

[katster.livejournal.com]

It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I would have liked it more if some of the people I really wanted to see had shown up, but that's the sort of thing you gamble with.

In the end, it turned out to be a rather pleasant experience, and you can talk about the good stuff that's happened. And people at least said hi.

Of course, it helped that one of the people I was most looking forward to seeing walked in just after me, when I was trying to get my nerves together to go into that room and *see* people for the first time.

I'm glad I went.

-kat

hmmm

[haruchai.livejournal.com]

so you actually returned eh? almsot makes me wonder if I should go to mine next year..crazy as it seems. Time flies so much. glad you had a good time though.

And I dunno if you already found this out or if you posted via somewhere else..but the new theater in the outlets has a hotspot. figure you may have missed that when I posted it a while ago but you had already left sactown.