11.13.2019 - What do you do when your youth is long gone?

11.13.2019 - What do you do when your youth is long gone?

As I approach my 55th high school class reunion and my 50th university class reunion, I was struck with "where in the hell has time and my youth gone" when I saw this cartoon. So you tell me, "What do you do when your youth is gone?"


Thinking about my high school reunion got me to thinking about my classmates or classmates in general who don't attend the class reunion and why some other classmates have never missed one. What is it about attending a high school reunion that is either scary or attractive?  Some of my good friends in high school who were super athletes, most popular, handsome and pretty, very smart, got along with everyone,  class officers, have never attended our high school reunion. They seemed to have just disappeared from the face of the earth. Some of these students who never attend live right down the street from the reunion site.  They say that high school "is the best of times and the worst of times." Was high school really bad for them and we just didn't know it? 

I have never missed a class reunion. I don't think that I have. I will be honest with you, I remember that I was there but I don't remember much about being there! Drank too much! Why have I never missed a reunion? I don't know! I just know that I had a lot of fun and it was always nice to see some of my classmates. I wasn't very popular in high school. I wasn't rich, I wasn't a hit with the girls, I wasn't a particularly good student, I made the honor roll one time in my sophomore year. I was a bit of a squirrel in class. I got along with most students and teachers. I participated in athletics for all my 4 years. I played football, baseball, and track. I never quit a team. I never missed class. Never played hooky. I never got suspended. I never got up and told my mother that I didn't like school anymore. I enjoyed school. What kept me going to school?  Maybe it was the girls. I did have a girlfriend for a time in my sophomore year. But only for a short time before she dumped me to go back to her ex senior boyfriend who had a car. 

So why is it that I have missed a class reunion? I don't know. 

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