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Written by Erin Frustaci
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Wednesday, 05 July 2006 |
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REUNION? YOU MUST BE JOKING
The idea of going to my 10-year high school reunion was like the feigned interest in listening to the punchline of a joke you’ve already heard. You smile, nod, let out a small giggle and move on. That’s what it’s like when you do go. When you don’t go, it’s like stopping the person telling the joke by saying: I’ve already heard that one. Then you go on your way.
 I don’t feel like I missed anything by not going to my reunion.
The e-mail invitation was made, as well as a request to help find others. I thought for a while and decided that I wasn’t going. And I wasn’t going to help find anyone, either.
Small towns are strange places. Everyone is into everyone else’s business and information spreads quickly. Anything you want to know is out there, whether you like it or not. And what can you do when you work in a newsroom? You see the engagement announcements, the wedding announcements and the birth announcements and hear gossip from friends you still keep in contact with. As far as I was concerned, the whole thing really wasn’t necessary.
Too little time had gone by.
Could enough time go by to change my attitude? Who knows?
I guess I feel that way because I never formed any big attachment to my school or the people in my school, except for a few treasured teachers and some close friends. My attitude toward high school was to just get through it. And that’s what I did. At graduation, I smiled, nodded, let out a few giggles and moved on.
I did see a few high school classmates years after and barely recognized them. Those faces were gone from my memory, or at least far enough in the back of my mind to stop for only a second and think: Do I know that person? I did and I didn’t.
When the weekend of the reunion came and went, I can honestly say I have no regrets. Can you miss a connection you never had? Maybe there is one, but I just don’t feel the pull.
So will I go to my 20-year high school reunion?
Maybe.
Ask me again in another 10 years, and I’ll let you know if I’ve heard that one already.
Sandra Machuca is the Web editor at NEXTnc and will text you if you are worthy of connection.
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