I'm going to a school reunion tomorrow and will see people I haven't seen in over 25 years.
Will be hard to not make some comparisons about how we've done so will be a little apprehensive. I'm a friend of a few on Facebook who seem to be doing very nicely but I think I have enough good stuff to talk about to hold my own. I would like to think that a couple of people will have mellowed from their borderline bullying back in the 80s. 
Have any of you been to a school reunion? How did it work out?
My ten year reunion is coming up in next 18 months. Not really sure I'll go. I've done most of the things I wanted to do when I left school and I have job that for me is a really big achievment. Alot of the people I went to school with are now married/have kids or went to Uni and most likely have fantastic jobs by now.
I think you should go if you feel you have enough good stuff to chat about. Also I think you are right about people mellowing. In the few years after I left I ocasionaly would run into some of those who were a bit nasty at School. I was amazed at how much some of them had changed.
Quote: Tuumble @ July 26 2013, 11:40 AM BSTI'm going to a school reunion tomorrow and will see people I haven't seen in over 25 years.
Will be hard to not make some comparisons about how we've done so will be a little apprehensive. I'm a friend of a few on Facebook who seem to be doing very nicely but I think I have enough good stuff to talk about to hold my own. I would like to think that a couple of people will have mellowed from their borderline bullying back in the 80s.
Have any of you been to a school reunion? How did it work out?
We have a re-union of my first secondary School (King Alfred School Plön) every January, about 100-130 ex pupils attend, all well over 60 now as the school closed in 1959. see http://www.kingalfredschool.com.
The ex-pupils (called Wyverns) have smaller parties/meetings throughout the year, some in Canada, some in Australia/NZ.
I made a brief video a year or so back. Be aware that the babble of sound is fairly loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTMm60cWJwM
Actually we find that often we do not recall a person from our time at the school, but we form new firm friendships from meeting up.
I'd rather lick my own anus than sit in the same room as the TWWWWWWWWATS I went to school with
I think School Reunions naturally bring out all the old insecurities and you end up feeling 15 again. You question your achievements and compare yourself to others.
There are two options:
1)Be proud of who you are, how far you have come and what you have achieved. Find your self esteem from inside yourself, rather than from validation from others.
2)Lie.
The one who is a vicar wrote to me this year. It was definitely chalk and cheese. We dealt with 25 years in four e-mails. There wasn't much to seize.
In that exchange, he did describe the reunion. Ex state school kids decide to be elsewhere. Apparently, on one side there is mega wealth and power. On the other, a guy who kept his hair.
For 30 years, they were all a distant island. Then their characters emerged in Boris and Co. I had sat next to the media guy but he was serious and never spoke. He is on The Now Show.
Thankfully I went to school overseas so no chance of me going to a reunion, but from what I've seen on Facebook the guys who were hot at school, haven't aged well at all,so I wouldn't worry about it everyone else will be as paranoid as each other.
I am what I am and I've done what I've done. I don't worry myself about the other ex pupils and some have achieved great things.
We have a Multi-millionaire,
A Major General
A Flight An Air Commodore
a padre who was Chaplain of the Tower of London
more than six M.B.E.s
and a fairly well known actress.
All from a 'pool' of only 4000 pupils.
Nothing to worry about if it's a 25th high school reunion. People are by that stage adults and not children. Life experience. In essence, no one has changed but merely grown up. Don't feel apprehensive. No need to drink a bottle of vodka and half a dozen beers before arriving to calm the nerves. I attended only one high school reunion in over 20 years and spent much of the time apologizing to people but the past was all "water under the bridge" and no one carried childhood grudges. No one was comparing how well they had or hadn't done. Not kids any more.
I'm shocked by how badly some people in my year at school have aged. We're only 30 for Christ's sake! I wouldn't mind going to a school reunion as I have slightly more social skills and a better haircut these days, so might actually talk to a few people.
Mine's coming up too. I want to use Rimmer's farewell speech from Holoship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=290sa-PRZmc
I want to be reunited with Miss Woodhead who used to give me one on one PE.
Quote: billwill @ July 27 2013, 12:49 AM BSTI am what I am and I've done what I've done. I don't worry myself about the other ex pupils and some have achieved great things.
We have a Multi-millionaire,
A Major General
A Flight An Air Commodore
a padre who was Chaplain of the Tower of London
more than six M.B.E.s
and a fairly well known actress.All from a 'pool' of only 4000 pupils.
Sounds like an Agatha Christie cast
Quote: William Purry @ August 7 2013, 7:21 AM BSTI want to be reunited with Miss Woodhead who used to give me one on one PE.
I had a teacher with that name. She taught art but couldn't draw an effing thing.