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Back in 1990, I attended a school reunion, not a smart thing to do, but the lady organising it was a good friend from schooldays, so with a bit of arm twisting, I went along.You know you're getting old when..
You look at a pic of your classmates from Sixth Grade (11 years old) and nearly everyone you can keep tabs on is either a grandparent, or deceased.
Back in 1990, I attended a school reunion, not a smart thing to do, but the lady organising it was a good friend from schooldays, so with a bit of arm twisting, I went along.
So many of my peers, who by then were in their mid 40's, had health issues, and we had already lost two to early deaths. My classmates all turn 70 this year. Apart from the lady who was one of the organisers, I'm not that interested in what the rest have done or are doing now.
I do know though, through that lady, that we seem to have lost more than the average.
It's sad, but it doesn't freak me about my own mortality. When it comes, it comes, no point worrying about it. In the meantime I just have to remember to keep breathing.
One thing that shook me at the time and has never fully left is that within four years of graduating high school one girl had died from cancer and another, a boy, took his own life. It was very hard to process that those two - who I knew, but weren't close friend with (but still, I went through several years of school with them) - were dead.
Then, about ten years ago, a girl (woman by then) form my high school who was divorced was killed by her ex-husband in some crazy fit of jealous rage as she was on a date (did I mention, they were divorced). What the h*ll - who does such a thing? I was absolutely stunned and feel so bad. I only knew her as a classmate, but my God, what people do.
Now that I'm in my early 50s, I know only more is coming (or I'll be the next one), but those early ones really shook me.
I've never participated in any of the reunions, and don't ever intend to.
Class-reunions are a curious thing. I don't find the sense in it. Why should people meet, which got nothing to say to each other, like in my case of a class of 2001?
like an older soul who greatly misses the world he once knew.
I'm not complaining. We had a great run, possibly the best time to be young in American history and now we're fading from the scene as the GenXers and Millennials take the stage. I don't know about you all but I've had a great time.
I still have one classmate from elementary school when I was ten.
She was the prettiest gal in the class and I had a crush on her
so bad it was sickening ....like smoking a pipe of cherry-blend tobacco.
Was very shy, I only admired her from a distance.
Many years later through facebook, we have become friends.
And though the years have taken its toll....when I see her eyes,
I’m back in elementary class.
But too shy to tell her I still have a crush.
The fact that she’s married might have something to do with it.