I don't think it's much of a big thing in Canada, but do people go to their high school reunions and make it a big thing like the movie? I doubt it's like senior prom, and doubt many go.
Please correct me if I've got it all wrong...
My Reunion was kind of blah! It was not that bad because i was with friends from class but i was a little bored.
Specially after seeing 2 of my school crushes married with kids i just wanted to leave but could not tell friends because they were the people who organised it and they were also my ride home
I went to school in a small Texas town (our graduating class had 38). I moved away as soon as I finished high school and have only gone back a few times. Last time was in 2004 for my mom's funeral. I have no desire to go to my high school reunion. I was on facebook for a short time and the people from high school I had reconnected with are still the same hateful, gossipy, petty people they were years ago. I've got better things to do.
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I'm not sure why but I have this sense that Canadians, and indeed, almost all other cultures are cooler than Americans! We wallow in sentimentality, Auld lange syne, hype, soupy sentiment and by tons of greeting cards. Even FOOTBALL is sentimental to us...not sure why since we were founded mostly by the British--SO not given to that (despite all their idiotic Royal Baby Hype--that's just longing for the Old Ways...not the old days, say I!).
I wouldn't have gone near any of my reunions unless you paid me (and it would have had to be A LOT!). The trouble was, every time I went home, I kept running into losers who wouldn't leave town and would always recognize me! They were the LAST people I wanted to see: boring, prejudiced, provincial, stupid, etc.
The crowd of friends I made in college, only an hour away--those were the people I'd go to see, not the bums back in high school. Well, maybe some of the teachers. Surprise, huh?
For another great Reunion-theme film, check out Grosse Pointe Blank, with Jon Cusack and Minnie Driver. He's an assassin who's evaluating his life and she's the girl he stood up on prom night, 10 yrs before!
She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.
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I spent my HS years in a small town where I did not quite fit in after moving from a bigger city. I became a stereotype. Misfit, loner, troubled. I had very little success in developing friendships and it was not until my second semester of my senior year that I felt any sense of connection with my peers. Life moves forward and in due time I found my place in society. I mustered the courage (yes it does take some) to attend my 30th reunion. I had a great time. Everyone else seems to have grown up as well.
shareI skipped my reunion because it cost $120 just to get into the reunion on a boat in the Baltimore Harbor. I wasn't about to pay $240 for my husband and I to go mingle with people I didn't get along with. The people I did get along with, I see all the time as we all STILL live in the same neighborhood.
Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fvck how crazy they are!!
Commonly, most don't. We have our reunions about every 5 - 10 years for high-schools, and I have never missed one. but about 25% or less attend. I never attend my college reunions, and live 3000 miles from my college.
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