Need a good reason to go to your high school reunion? How about 31?
- You’ve got nothing to prove.
- You want to swoon over your ex-boyfriend.
- You want your ex-boyfriend to swoon over you – might want to start looking for that perfect cocktail dress now.
- No one can relive that big game like the friends who where there with you when it happened.
- Few events offer the opportunity to go back in time and laugh like a teenager.
- This party doesn’t involve puffy prom dresses, dyed to match shoes, or big hair – though you might see a few photos of just that.
- You know high school didn’t define you.
- You might find out Mr. Most-Likely-To-Succeed is now a stay-at-home dad, and Miss Biggest Flirt is now a tenured professor at an Ivy League.
- You’ve traded in your sporty Chucks for sexy Jimmy Choos a long time ago.
- Even though your life didn’t follow the road map you had planned, you know deep down your path has been uniquely yours.
- Even with the best of intentions, you really don’t get together with those high school Facebook friends.
- You look better than you’ve ever looked before.
- You feel better than you’ve ever felt before.
- You are so not who you were back then.
- You want to remember who you were back then.
- You can’t hear the infectious laugh of the classmate who sat behind you in geometry, see an ex-boyfriend’s smiling blue eyes, or hug your former locker partner on Facebook.
- To introduce your husband to the girlfriends who got you through your first heartbreak.
- It is sure to be chock full of status worthy Facebook postings or fodder for your blog.
- Even if you’re recently divorced, have a bit less hair, lost your job or wear a few extra pounds, you are still who you are, only better.
- It is a great way to show your partner where you came from.
- And an even better way to see how far you’ve come.
- There are very few opportunities in life to reinvent yourself.
- You can watch a movie about a reunion – Grosse Pointe Blank, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion – or you can live it.
- Group memories are best shared as a group.
- At a reunion, everyone shows up older, and then grows young again.
- Your classmates know just what it is like and just how it feels to be 28, or 38, or 48, or 58 or 68.
- To talk about your high school glory days, not to relive them, but to tell your classmates “I’m glad we went through it together” makes for a great evening.
- The “I didn’t like anyone then”, “I still talk to everyone I want to talk to”, and “everything there is to know about anyone is on Facebook” excuses are predictable and ordinary. You are neither.
- Rarely in life do you get to look back through a new lens.
- Being someone’s “friend” on Facebook does not mean you know anything about them other than what they did last Friday night.
- Because you can.
Why are you going to your high school reunion? Leave a comment to let us know!
