To go, or not to go?

[chrissigrl]

Of course, they found me through Facebook. I wonder what all the former class presidents did before the Internet?

"August 27 at 11:54pm
SUBJECT:Class of [MY HIGH SCHOOL] Ten Year Reunion
Between You and [EVENT ORGANIZER OF MY GRADUATING CLASS]

Hi Christina,

I'm working with [CLASS PRESIDENT] and [CLASS VICE PRESIDENT] on the 10 year reunion. We have a facebook group page and we are collecting everyone's contact information to send invitations to the Ten Year Reunion.

Please join the Group so that you can be up-to-date on the planning of the reunion. Here is the link: http:// www.facebook.com/doyoureallywanttogotothisthing?really?

Please either email me your current contact information at organize.this@yourfucking10yearreunion.com or send through facebook.

Hope that you are doing well,
[EVENT ORGANIZER OF MY GRADUATING CLASS]"

Crap. Since I can count to 10, I knew this was coming. I also know it's not a HUGE deal. It's one night of awkward conversation and dancing to bad music (Prom Night II: Now The Drinkin's Legal), but is it necessary? The advent of Facebook sort of makes the act of the reunion obsolete. I already know who got married, who got knocked up, who got fat, because the Internet told me so. There most likely won't be any surprises. I also worry- I've had TEN YEARS to get it together, and I don't have much to show. No babies, no engagement rings, no Tonys. My best friend says, "Are you kidding? Of course we're going! We're the only ones who didn't get boring jobs. Or fat." But I don't know. Did any of you go to you 10-year reunion? Was it worth it?

UPDATE: Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion has just started on a random cable channel. Possibly, I should watch it for inspiration.

Comments

[mobley.livejournal.com]

totally worth it. people grown up 10 years tend to be much nicer. also brought back memories i hadn't thought of in years.

[capearce.livejournal.com]

When I heard my ten year reunion was coming up this November, I did the math and got Ellen pregnant again in March. It gives me an iron clad excuse not to go.

To be fair, my whole life in New York was already a high school reunion before I moved to the Midwest.

[sweeeet-pea.livejournal.com]

GO! It's a blast.

[billyfleetwood.livejournal.com]

I only went to mine because my best friend insisted, and I was drunk already. As in we were already out drinking the night of, and it was nearby. It was boring, and I left early. The whole tradition baffles me. High School was just some place I had to go before they would let me into college. The idea of revisiting that phase of my life and the people in it at scheduled intervals as some sort of gauge of my progress through life seems like planned mediocrity.

I know that sounds very Oscar the Grouch of me, so I will add that I am going to visit my best friend from High school next month and I am really excited,as I haven't seen him in 5 years, and he's truly one of my favorite people on the planet. Also he lives in Hong Kong, which is awesome.

[charlotte-webb.livejournal.com]

You look awesome. Go. Hell, you ARE awesome! GO!!!!!!

[zorpo.livejournal.com]

Do it. I had mine last year and it was much more fun than I thought it would be. give people some credit; they've had ten years to get more mature.

[thejetzer.livejournal.com]

Two options:
1) Go to the reunion and make the best of it.
2) Move out here and then you can say "Sorry, I can't take that much time off of work to fly over there...because I live in Vegas." Which will instantly be followed by interested murmur from the crowd because, when you say you live in Vegas, people are intrigued.