Should I go... school reunions

Opinions please... school reunions (primary school mind you, not even high school). We have one tommorrow, and I'm in two minds. Two of these people are still mates who I see from time to time, and are good value to get drunk with. But the others I haven't seen in... oh, 35+ years. Does this crowd (except me of course, I'm incredible company) look as though they'll party hard?

Your experiences of the reunions please. Will I enjoy it? (Weird looking bunch to me)

MidnightMuse said:

Wow - I dunno, looks like a freaky bunch to me!

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Careful, careful... I'm one of those freaks remember!

Stew21 said:

which freak...oh, I mean kid...are you, Kiwi?

are you the one second row all the way to the right with his tongue sticking out?

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Hmmm, we could play a "match the person to the life story" game here. Nah, I'm second row down, third from right (I mean right of the photo).

scarletpeaches said:

I honestly don't see the point of things like friendsreunited or school reunions. If someone is still your friend, you'll still be in contact with them. But if you need to search for someone, or get in touch through a school reunion, they're obviously not a priority to them, nor they to you.

I'm not a great believer in going back. There's no-one from my school days I'd like to keep in touch with - so I don't. If there was, we'd still be in touch now. And we're not. Because I simply don't care for any of them.

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Yeah, this is the way my thoughts are going. Two of those guys are still friends, and really great characters. They're on the phone all the time badgering me to go, but... I dunno, I just can't even remember much about the others.

Funny what you remember from school days, and the real hoot was our fancy dress balls. Once a year, and quite good value in that you spent heaps of time off classes to rehearse these bizarre dances like the military two-step or whatever.

Anyway, it wasn't like you took a partner, it was done on the basis that for each dance you picked a partner. "Picking a partner" meaning the guys lined up on one side of the hall and on a given command made a beeline for their choice. Which ended up resembling a slightly more advanced form of that afternoon's game of bull-rush. Quite a few false starts where half the guys were tripped up, so the starter would bark instructions to line up again. etc. Remember this was fancy dress, so the poor sods who were decked out in mum's space-man creation were usually left wobbling around at the back trying to get their bearings.

No wonder later in life the Kiwis' mating rituals are rather lacking in decorum... blame the education system I say.

sassandgroove said:

A reunion isn't necessarily "going back." I haven't been to an official reunion, but I once took a 5 week road trip to "all the places I used to live to remember why I don't live there anymore." after that trip I was able to move forward in my life.

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Really interesting what you're saying here. For a long long time I just couldn't even handle going near anywhere that smacked of different bits of my past. It was as though these memories of mis-spent youth, everyone addicted to everything going, screwed-up relationships, the whole bit... I just couldn't face it. Then one of the guys in that photo and I went back to our home town one day to look around.

It was odd... we peered through school classroom windows and amazingly they looked basically the same, remembered flats we'd all lived in. And then reminiscing, like "Hey remember that night you were with that chick X and I was with Y..", and I was almost flinching thinking about some of the really crazy shit. But as you are saying Sass, it was as though I resolved a whole lot of things, accepted it and could kind of live with the momories again. It was a healing process, quite profound.