High School Reunion

I had the most amazing experience this weekend. After months of dread, my ten-year reunion finally arrived. It took all the courage I had to face all of those people that I remembered hating so much from that dreadful high school.

It started at Hand in Hand on Friday. Of course I decided the best manner in handling myself was to get plowed. So after only two hours of sleep and not eating since breakfast, I did what any fine standing person would do and surrendered to Stella. Stella took me away. I went from the shy quiet girl in school to little miss chatterbox. I have no idea how much I drank, but it eventually got the best of me. whoops. I got a chance to bond with people from high school that I had never spoken to and some I had gone to school with since elementary school. Yes - I was THAT shy. Primarily, I got to talk for some time with Craig Knotts and Joy (Lance) Spears. It is a shame that Joy and I never spoke in HS.

On Saturday we had a picnic at the high school. I got to see some of the people that would not be at the reunion. One was Angie (Mickle) Rosen. She was too cute, and has a beautiful little boy. She glows with a radiance of happiness that I think most people strive to achieve. Jordan Sellers was the same way, with all three of his kids and his wife. It is funny to the the obnoxious kid who was always so sad now a dad and laughing and cutting up. Of course, he is still a little obnoxious - but now it forms as an active dad. I had to say something to his wife. It is the most beautiful thing in the world to me to see two people look at each other the way that they do.

The reunion was at the Fox on Saturday night. I went with a plan - I was going to talk to every person who was there. I was sooooo nervous. But I did it. I missed a few people, due to time constraints, but I spoke to almost all of the other students there. Funny thing, for the most part, the people are exactly the same. The shy kids are still shy (maybe not all of them...hee...hee...), the football players are still ogres (most of them), the snotty chicks are still snotty, and the drug dealer came with his supplies. I am probably today the headline of the gossip column. I have never been so glad that I have done anything in my life. And I have more friends from high school now than I had when I was in high school. It was wonderful.

I can now see so clearly how I have sabotaged myself most of my life. I knew that my life wasn't working and that is what caused me to make some pretty drastic changes, but I never saw how much I did to my own detriment until this past weekend. My eyes were opened to so many things.