Photo Friday: I recently attended my 30-year high school reunion. These are the "kids" from my elementary school. Ok, I don't think any of the other kids are retired yet, so what does this have to do with retirement?
Well many of my classmates opted not to go to the reunion at all. I get it, time is valuable and they just didn't see the value in attending. Maybe there isn't any, I don't know. So then, why go? Well the way I see it, now that I'm retired I've got plenty of time, so instead of asking why go, I just figured why not go?
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As a side note, my husband Doug opted not to go to his, and now after seeing all the photos on Facebook, he regrets it. What's that saying about not regretting the things you did but the things you didn't do? So there's that too.
Posted by: Retired Syd | November 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM
I went to my wife's reunion recently. One thing I found really interesting was the differences in biological aging. Some people looks a lot older than they were and others looked younger.
Posted by: rjack | November 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM
rjack: I was struck by that too. The other thing I was struck by is that the aging process seemed to have universally made people nicer!
Posted by: Retired Syd | November 16, 2012 at 12:08 PM
I would at least consider going to my HS reunion except for 2 things: (1) It costs about $110 per person at some fancy hotel, and (2) I hated most of my classmates who treated me like dirt so why would I want to see them again other than a "Revenge of the Nerds" motif?
Posted by: deegee | November 17, 2012 at 07:55 AM
deegee: Well, you have a point there. There was actually one kid in my class that everyone was awful to in the 7th grade. Really awful. Anyway, when the emails went out about the reunion, he replied to everyone with the same question--you all tortured me to no end, why on earth would I want to go back and relive that experience? All I could think was he had a great point.
Kids can be pretty awful, really. That's one thing I did like about the reunion, though, everyone grew out of that kid thing and turned out to be very nice adults.
Posted by: Retired Syd | November 17, 2012 at 08:20 AM
It looks like a lot of fun! The people don't look like they're all the same age though... funny how that can happen.
For some reason, the feed/url doesn't seem to work on your latest post on hurrying. I just wanted to whine about 3 a.m. waking issues. :-)
Posted by: Jacq | November 17, 2012 at 02:41 PM
Jacq: Thanks for letting me know about that post--now, let's see if I have the expertise to figure out what's wrong and how to fix it!
Posted by: Retired Syd | November 17, 2012 at 04:00 PM