My 10-Year High School Reunion

After 10 years... Whoa… wrote this after my reunion last month. Guess I forgot to post it! Last night was my 10 year reunion. After much planning, mostly on the part of my good friend Sara Hume, the event went off quite spectacularly. I think everyone was a bit surprised at how much fun they had. I had an excellent time seeing friends that I literally had not seen since the day we graduated. I really wish we had had more time. 4 hours was hardly enough to say hi to the people I haven’t seen, and certainly not enough time to really have a conversation. I heard people say that being connected on places like facebook has ruined reunions. I think the opposite. I was happy that a lot of the people I talked to already knew something of what I’ve been up to, and vice versa. I’m happy facebook gives us a glimpse into people’s lives, and I can say that I’ll be more likely to call up some old friends now that we’ve actually seen each other in person. The great part is that I was really impressed with the people I met. Impressed and humbled… I’m not sure if my expectations were low, but I was blown away by all the things people had done. I’ve moved a lot, and I was thinking this morning that it would be great if we had more formalized reunions for the other parts of life. I’d love to see my post college crowd after 10 years. Or even my elementary school crowd in Indiana. It’s such a strange thing to see people from years past, because we don’t really have a chance to catch up completely, and as much as I’d like to… it’s unlikely I’ll see anyone but a handful of people again until the next reunion. There was something to be learned from last night. I’m not really clear on what it is though. Perhaps that life seems to continuously change, and even if I wanted to I couldn’t stop any portion of it. Things, people, situations have changed so much since high school that it makes everything seem ephemeral. My general life situation today won’t be the same tomorrow. But today I’m happy, so I guess I’ll just focus on that. -->