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Jun 08, 05
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The Dreaded 10yr High School Reunion
Yep.... holy crap. This Friday/Saturday is my 10yr reunion. I don't know why I'm so scared shitless of going but I am.
I don't know, in high school I had my group of friends, albeit a small group, and we weren't the 'cool' group but we weren't the uber-nerds either. Nobody really HATED me, I just kind of WAS. You know what I mean? I was just there and that's that. I mean I never really fit in because I just didn't fit in with everyone else and the way they were. I grew up in Mission and if you didn't have a mullet and play hockey and worship the Tragically Hip you were a no one. I listened to metal and dyed my hair purple... need I say more? I have this sick feeling in my gut about the whole thing. Part of me wants to go just so I can see all the losers who got on my case still doing the same old thing. Living in Mission, working at a mill, never going anywhere. Another part of me wants to be the bigger person and let everything go and treat them all like old friends. Who knew that a simple reunion with high school friends could be so bloody stressful!?!?! 
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Jun 08, 05
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ten years is a long time for people to change. i've met up with people i knew in highschool (maybe only five years later) and they were totally different people, and I get along with them a lot better now. a lot of the shit they did back then was just childish, and they'll probably realize it now. have fun.
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Jun 08, 05
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That was high school and this is now. Hopefully people have grown up and gotten past some of the cliques and barriers that existed in that mutually insecure time. So do be over not being "someone" then, and at the same time be proud of the "someone" you have become. So, be both; Be the bigger person (let the past be the past) AND be proud (keep the smugness on the inside!) that you have gotten past high school and beyond the mission rut*!
*As you seem to have put it. I dunno Mission at all.
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Jun 08, 05
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I figure that in the long run I'm not going to worry about what anyone else really thinks of me. I've come a long way since high school. What I do know is that I'll still go in there being the guy who's different from everyone else.
I mean not in a million years would I have ever seen a single person from my grad class at a rave for example. Them with their tight jeans and plaid shirts and me with piercings and a fauxhawk!! hahahaha I figure that most people will tend to fall back into the clique they had in high school. We'll all say casual hello's but then move on to the people we REALLY knew in school. Hopefully it turns out well and doesn't end up being some socially awkward event!
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Jun 08, 05
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^ I agree with this Statement as well.
When my 10 Year comes around there'll be only one reason that I'll go and Angel put it beautifully. Quote:
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Good luck. Just remember to have fun and that the past is the past.. You are a different person now.. It doesnt matter what they think of you. Its not like you have to see them everyday for 4 years!
I'll be excited to go to my reunion. I was kind of shy in highschool so it will be neat for people to see me for what I am ;D
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Jun 08, 05
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I had a rad time in highschool and it'd be really fun to get drunk with my old friends...
but things just really aren't the same, we all grew apart, and i don't think we all have much in common anymore. oh, plus i really especially hate answering the 'SO WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?' question.
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Jun 09, 05
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I think things would have been different if I had gone to school maybe in the city as compared to some hicktown highschool where everyone grows up to be millworkers, drunks, and farmers!!
I'm gonna do my best to make sure that I'm friendly and all that jazz but I'm sure I'll secretly be wishing for just a few of them to have failed miserably..... does that make me bitter? 
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I'm sure it will end up being fine.... I just need to suck it up and let bygones be bygones. :)
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Jun 09, 05
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I think the real kicker about being outta school is ocasionally seeing people from school in normal situations like at the grocery store, and all of a sudden, they have a kid or got married or something. Where does the time go eh
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Jun 09, 05
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My 10 year should be coming up soon. I think I'd go just to see what are up to now.
Also if anyone asks what I do for a living i'll just tell them i work for Rice-a-roni or I train monkeys for NASA. They better have an open bar that night too
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Jun 09, 05
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two more years for me.
i saw some chick a couple of months ago that i went to highschool with. we chit chatted for a bit (the regular stuff) and when we made our good byes i said that i'd see her in 2007...lol the look of confusion on her face was awesome. i think i live for that look.
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Jun 09, 05
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I probably won't even get to go to my 10 yr reunion cuz I didn't really graduate when I was there (and I graduated a year late at a different school anyways). :( I wonder if I can sneak into it. hehe
And hey, if anyone wants I can be their pretend wifey for a reunion! ;) Hehe, so much fun to make up stories at those kinda things. lol.
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Jun 09, 05
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I saw a couple people from my grad class in a Roger's Video in COQ and I stared at the same 4 boxes of previously viewed DVD's for a good 5 minutes until they left. All because I wanted to avoid the lame small talk crap that would have been awkward as hell.
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