So what are you up to now?

Went to the 10-year reunion.  It was more eventful than I was honestly expecting.  I went with three of my friends, so I never have to do the awkward standing around figuring out what to do shuffle.  But still, what is the etiquette for reunions?  As I mentioned in my last post, do you hang out with and talk to only the same people from high school??  Answer – Yes. 

In high school, I knew of a lot of people (i.e. I knew their names, who their associates were, what they were known for) but a lot of people didn’t know me (at least I think they didn’t).  I never went to the big high school parties.  Never hung out with the popular kids.  I never got into trouble.  I had my core group of friends and that was fine with me. 

So at the reunion, at first I wasn’t sure if it was the norm to go up to people that you didn’t talk to and catch up with them.  I really don’t know how this thing works!  Do you go up to Popular Girl X and say, “hey Popular Girl X!  Remember me??  How have you been??”  Then in my head, Popular Girl X responds with a look that says “I don’t fucking know and I don’t fucking care” but says “No, remind me again?”  And after you tell her your name, Dorky Girl Pi-squared, she gasps and says “Oh my god!  You look so different! It’s so great to see you!” when in all honesty she has no clue who you are and really doesn’t care too much. 

Do I really want to go through the same humiliation that I went through in high school?  Nope.  (Okay, maybe I am exaggerating a little bit… high school wasn’t THAT bad.)  So I stayed with my little group of friends.  We caught up on relationships, commented on how we are happy we don’t have kids right now, talked about mortgage payments and student loans.  You know, adult stuff.  (The somewhat adult talking about adult things?  CA-RA-ZY!!)  And I was perfectly satisfied with that.  Now, we did catch up with a handful of other people that maintained a similar high school “status” to what we did.  But did I venture out of my safety circle much – nope. 

There were a couple of people that I randomly talked to, but nothing out of the ordinary.  I saw a lot of people that I knew, but was never really friends with.  Should I have said ‘Hi’ to more?  Yeah, probably.  But honestly, who went home thinking “Oh, I wish I would have been able to talk to DeAnna”?  Probably no one.  I figure, I didn’t talk to you in high school, I haven’t talked to you in the past 10 years, and chances are, I probably won’t talk to you after this. So why bother? 

Maybe I should change my attitude on this, but the people who are important to me, I know how to get a hold of and talk to/see them a couple times a year anyway. 

Plus, there is always Facebook.