Let's Talk About Why You Don't Want to Attend the Class Reunion

I don’t like the way I look and don’t anyone to see me.

Oh, puh-leeze! All of us are older, fatter, grayer, have gained wrinkles and/or lost hair. This is a reunion, not a beauty contest, and no one cares what you look like. We’re adults now and being older and wiser means we finally understand that it really is what’s inside that counts.

Being around a lot of people, especially ones I don’t know or haven’t seen in a long time, makes me nervous and anxious.

Sure, that’s understandable. A lot of us are in the same boat. Please be assured that we won’t put you in a spotlight or ask you to do anything that will make you uncomfortable, like stand up and give a short speech about your life since high school. [1] 

High school wasn’t a whole lot of fun for me. Not sure I want to revisit it.

Listen, we were teenagers back then and it’s been scientifically proven that our brains don’t fully develop until we’re 25.

All the stuff we went through in high school – all the petty jealousies, worries, spats, teenage angst – it’s all water under the bridge now that we can meet each other on an adult level, with our fully functioning adult brains, and find out how much we had in common all along.

I don’t know what to wear.

Wear whatever you want. It’s usually more casual at the Meet and Greet - lots of jeans, some casual slacks, some sundresses. Saturday night at Valley VFD you’ll see more sundresses or dress pants but some people will wear jeans and t-shirts or even shorts and flip-flops. And it’s all fine. THIS IS NOT THE PROM. Wear whatever you want.

[1] Don’t anyone do that, please. It would be weird.

Still not convinced? Read this, please.