HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, remember when??? Options

[Guest_JunieMoon_*]

HIGH SCHOOL REUNION

I got the letter in the mail,
High School reunion, will you be there?
I thought and talked to myself,
if I went who would care?
Memories of that old school,
Algebra, Spanish, teachers I could never fool.
Boys with pimples, girls with long hair;
dresses on prom night with just the shoulders bare;
young fellows in blue tuxs trying to be men.
I wondered (chuckled)had their long hair come to an end?
Football games and snobby cheerleaders,
now with kids and probably secret binge eaters.
Vietnam and burn your bra;
Beetlemania, me strumming my guitar.
Stealing cigarettes from mom,
grounded on the big weekend.
Where were they all now?
Where had they all been?
1969, and just a few good friends.
That was all gone, it came to an end.
I put the paper in the shredder.
I didn’t need them then,
and I don’t need them now.

p.s .I wonder where those old bell bottoms are, oh, well

[Guest_Nina_*]

Hi Junie

Ah school reunions and reminicing about lost youth.  I have never been to a school reunion.  The closest I have come to finding out what people at school are doing now is by signing up with Friends Reunited website here in UK.

The words: I didn't need them then
and I don't need them now
really struck a cord with me.  As you say in your poem, I had a few good friends at school (who I still am in touch with) but the rest I wouldn't be that interested in meeting again.

Thanks for the read

Nina

[Guest__*]

Dear Junie,

Fun. With a tinge of bitterness - was your school really that bad ? I don't really want to think back to see if mine was any better.

Love
Alan

[Guest_JunieMoon_*]

Yeh, Nina, perhaps lost youth but maturity has given me more things to write about. Alan, yes, my school days were the pits. I was an ugly ducking and not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I went into the Army after High School, and I DID get an education there. Served 2 years in the Vietnam Era and married a Vietnam Vet. My sister also joined the Army 6 years after me then my brother (went to College first) and joined the Air Force. My brother flew F-14 and F16, even flew top gun school.  Had a pretty crappy life at home and anywhere but there was were we all wanted to be.   Junie Moon

[Siren]

Hello Junie,

The apparent bitterness those days instilled in you hit my heart. But I guess we all go through crap in our childhood whether from school or from home. Still there is a strength at the end...

Enjoyed a glimpse within u...

Hugs
Dani

[Guest_Zeus²_*]

Linda,

a different perspective from the gal's point of view. I never attended
any HS reunions, but I still do keep in touch and see once in a while most
of the original group of guys that kind of hung out together (Class of 50').
We have all been thru the first loves, marriage, births, the passing of loved ones, and grandparents all, yet still feel the camaraderie between us. Can't speak for some of the gals we knew, since they all moved on a long time ago.

But you did think of those old bell bottoms, so it did tweak your curiosity.

Larry

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Linda,

Your view of school (at least 11-16) is mine, too. Dreadful. Hated it.

Larry - Linda's view is not just from a female perspective - I feel the same. I'd do almost anything to avoid a reunion. Camaraderie! ha! No way. I most certainly don't want to know what people from those first five years are doing now - and I'm sure they don't want to know me. Between 16-18 was better but 11-16 years of age - horrid.

Thanks! J.

[Guest_Nina_*]

Hi Junie

whoever first invented the phrase "school days are the best years of your life" was talking the biggest load of rubbish  and it always used to annoy me when my grandmother said it to me.  I enjoy my life now much more than I ever did school.  I hated primary school (4 -11) and couldn't wait to leave there, Secondary school was slightly better apart from a period of being bullied. It is sad that so many people feel the same way, male and female.

Nina

[Guest_JunieMoon_*]

I am so glad that this light piece got to so many readers. I think high school is hard on all teenagers. Of my 3 kids only 2 went to public high school the 3rd child just went from 8th grade right to college. She just graduated from The Royal Veterinary College in London,England with honors and will take a intenship in Florida. I wonder if kids need 4 or 5 years of structured education that just repeats what they learned the last year. I have strong thoughts on the education system in the US.
Thank you all for reading this poke at high school.  Junie Moon

[Guest_Nina_*]

That's pretty impressive Linda.

What age is 8th grade.  I haven't a clue how the grades go in America.  Did you teach her at home?

Nina

[Cleo_Serapis]

Wow Linda!

I enjoyed this poem and also the chat that's brought back my own memories too.

Congrats on your accomplishments  -

If I might offer a cliche that comes to mind: Its' this phrase: You can't wait to graduate so you can 'act' mature, then once you are out in the 'real world' wish you were back in school.

My school days were quite different but to the same end: Miss popularity then - tons of fake friends - then we entered the 'real world' and that was the last of the friendships.....

Sad, but true..

A poignant piece!  :pharoah2

~Cleo  :claps:

[Aphrodite]

Hi Linda~

An excellent retrospective with attentive recollection!

You brought me back!

Take care~
Lindi