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by Morgan Rios
There is probably nothing you can do to talk me in two going to a high school class reunion. Not only do I think they are lame, I don’t think anything good comes from them. Perhaps if I had a lot of friends that I had never stayed in touch with I would want to go to one of these. This is not the case for me though, as all of the people who will I am interested in knowing are the people who are currently in my life. It may be fun to go down memory lane once in awhile, but there are some lanes that are best left un-traveled.
My husband got an invitation to his high school class reunion just recently. The problem with this was that it was from a high school he attended in Florida and we now live in New York. Though he thought it might be great to go to the high school class reunion to meet up with some people he had known long ago, he did not think it was worth the price of a plane ticket. He had only gone to high school in Florida for a year and a half, and said he had not left behind anyone he could not live without. He wondered on occasion what had happened to a few of his classmates, but the chances of them being there were pretty slim.
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‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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Some people like to go to a high school class reunion just to gloat. If I were to go, this would be my reason. I try not to think of myself as a petty person though, and I do believe it would be a waste of my time. I quite honestly hope that everyone from my class has had a great life, and I would never wish pain on anyone. I just know that if I go to my high school class reunion that I would be pretty miserable. High school wasn’t too bad for me, but life since then has been wonderful. There is no sense in going back to something that wasn’t that exciting in the first place.
I guess the thought behind a high school class reunion is a good one. There are many people who have pride in the town they came from, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Many people unfortunately think of high school as the best years of their lives, and these are the people that you’re likely to run into any high school class reunion. I am not one of these people. I think life gets better as you go, and I have not been happier than I am right now. I think things will only get better from here on out. Perhaps a high school class reunion would just be too depressing for me.
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