What did you feel seeing your old classmates once again in a reunion?

When I went to my 15 Year reunion, Oh my gosh it was aboslutely wonderful to see how so many of my old school friends were and to catch up with current events in everyone's life. Happiest part is that my son who then was in eight grade, was my date for the evening. I was divorced for a while and he said to me mommy you cannot go alone so I will be your date. Oh I dressed him to a tee and we walked into the room so proud. Best part for me being a young parent with the grown children that I have, my son after being there for a few hours said to me are you sure you are in the right reunion mommy, when I asked why he said these people look like grand parents there is no way you graduated with them. ahahaha.. we danced all night he is such a great sport. I will never forget that as he was right though a great many of them look so very bad, as if life beat them so bad they no longer had to take care of themselves. A great many of us still reach out via email and some get togethers as some plan and fly back home just for the gathers. So I find it to have been a very positive thing to go to my reunion.

I was invited to a school reunion about 8 years ago, over 20 years since I left school. I was really in two minds whether to go or not - my school days were not the happiest days of my life and I was bullied . In the end I decided that I would go to try and lay some old ghosts and get some closure from some of the unhappy memories.It turned out that only the people who had been successful in life actually went to the reunion , almost just to brag about their achievements. Some of my 'bulliers' were there and in a way it was good for me to see them again and be able to look at them in a different way, infact I even asked one of them if she realised just how unhappy she had made me at school.It was therapeutic for me in some respects but not an experience I would want to repeat.

Well, we will be having our reunion this coming December. It was 20 years ago since the last time we gathered up together and now,our reunion is coming too fast. By this moment i feel so much excited and i even started to lose some weight and been thinking what to wear (hahaha) Of course i still want to look as pretty as i am 20 years before. I know it would be a mixed emotions to think that we will be reminiscing lots of memories. Happy sad and cute moments too. Have a good day and wish you had a great reunion

Hiya bings, We have never been able to get together a School Reunion although we would have liked to at least most of us instead we send messages to one another by Facebook or a Site that is called Friends Reunited.co.uk. Have been able to catch up with them online a little but not too much either as it seems People after all the years that have gone by have suddenly lost their tongue or don´t want to write. Still have caught up with a few and that was quite positive so I can´t complain at all. I would like to be able to go back and see them all of course I would but things and People change even though we might not want them to. I was looking for a life long playmate and it seems she has vanished into thin air I just cannot find any link to her at all. Still hope you had a good reunion.

i feel excited at the first time but i would begin to worry about if there are changes between us. it's been a long time we didn't meet and we used to be very good friends but the career and life making us separate from each other and we feel strange. i will feel odd and don't know what to say at the first time. but what we need just some time and i think we will get closer at the next class reunion. i'm excited for the next meeting.

Hi Bingskee, my friend, Thinking about your question, I was never really inclined to see old classmates in such gatherings so I never went to a single class reunion in my entire life. I am not the kind who mingle around many people all at one time. I love to hear nice things about old friends and their success stories inspire me but I get stressed listening to sad stories. I easily get depressed learning the bad things that had happened to them. I'd rather stay home and keep cozy with my family. Besides I don't have much to tell them. I also believe that people change as time pass and those people you liked before may not be the same people you'll meet at a reunion and vice versa just like you said. It will only be a disillusion. Have a nice day!

I went to a class reunion this year, and it was a pizza place that my classmate and I have all chosen to never good to again (John's Pizza Co. isn't as great as everyone says it is), and seeing them was nice. Most of them are all parents, some of them have great paying jobs, and many of them are doing very well.

I really don’t like the idea of reunions too much. In school I was very much an introvert and most of my classmates used to pull my leg over many things and I disliked most of them. Childish though all these sounds now, those incidents left an indelible mark in my mind and I don’t look forward to meeting those same girls (ladies now) again. I had just one or two friends and none of them are now in a position to come for any reunion. Also, I’ve seen that more than bonding with old friends, these reunions turn out like a competition of bragging about what who has become in life and for women, what sort of men who has married, what is the husband’s income, what luxuries they can afford and all such frivolous talk. I genuinely believe that I’m better off without such friends.

I am still in school, but I am meeting people in high school that I lost contact with from elementary school when I went into middle school. :D I haven't seen much change in the people I know, but it's interesting seeing how much people I know have changed from their perspective. One of my friends used to be.. well, slightly chubby, had short brown hair, and was short. Now he's kind of tall, very skinny(almost anorexic skinny) and has long black hair with a blond streak in it. :]

Hi bingskee, Being reunited with old classmate at a school reunion is usually filled with excitement and curiosity. I was curious about many of my old classmate's lives. Were the ones who we thought were going to be successful, successful? Or, the ones we thought would be unsuccessful, unsuccessful? I was curious to see if the high school sweethearts remained together and got married. I was not very happy to some of my old classmates, because of the dislike we shared for one another seemed to still linger after many years. One would think that the years of maturity would have ease the childish behavior, but I guess time does not heal all wounds. It was a delight to see my teachers, especially the ones that gave me motivation to go out into the world and be a success. Most of them were still very alert and active in the community, some were still teaching and inspiring young people to be the best that they can be. Overall, my class reunion was a very nice affair to attend; I look forward to the next one.

Oh wow I know that I would have to try and hold my tears back because I would be so happy to see them after all that time that had passed I would be really excited. Especially because if I saw someone that I never confessed to that I loved him, but oh well you know I think we were just destined to be friends for the last year and just that. Still seeing classmates after a long time you want to make a good impression you know. I can't wait for one of my reunions.

After 18 years, we've had an informal high school reunion last Nov 2009. Not all of my batch mates were able to attend. I have also mixed emotions like you when I got there. I found out that the guys were more enjoyable to talk to than the girls. The girls were just like before, they keep talking to their own circle of friends. There were others who reached out and shared their experiences. I saw different forms and models of cameras. Everyone seems busy taking pictures. You cannot really judge fate, those students before who seemed to be weak are the ones that are successful now; those who seemed to excel do not live the way you expected them to be. Next year will be our 20th anniversary, I hope everybody can come.

Going to the 10 year reunion was exciting because you are still young but going to my 20 year reunion was another story. You could see that we all aged. There wasn't that much enthusiasm anymore about returning. I think at the 10 year reunion most people who had graduated were excited about starting their careers. At 20 years it was just different. I felt good because although I didn't accomplish my career I had a family and a husband. Something I thought wouldn't happen.

thinking about the question makes my heart jump with joy and leap my emotions to infinity! haha. over! but i really feel that way whenever we have a reunion or even i just bump into one old classmate by the mall. like i experienced yesterday! he left me smiles to come to think of our fun times together when we were just in college. after our mini conversation, i had that mini smile in my face all by myself for a couple of minutes. and that was only one person how about a dozen or all of them! it would really be a crazy moment for me!!!

I haven't been to a reunion in years. I missed our 30 year one a couple of years ago. however, i have met up with a lot of former classmates on facebook. they are so different now, most of them! But when I look at the pictures I think how old they have gotten!!

I love class reunions. Our classmates memories are some of the best memories in life because we shared closeness with many of these friends and they becomes almost like a siblings.

yup bingskee, it was a strange kind of feeling especially when all of us have not met for so many years and have been so busy with our diverse preoccupations during the in-between years - in our careers and family life. Well it has been some 20 years since we last met. At a get-together dinner, some of my classmates I vaguely can recognise until they speak! Others remain more or less the same. Just older and more mature, hopefully wiser too. But funnily when we met there seems to be a freeze in time from the time we left school till we met - coz I notice that the usual idiosyncrasies sometimes remain the same. The resident school joker will still be one. I do note that the quiet one may have turned a tad louder though.

Honestly, if you will ask me about my High school classmates.I don't have a good memories with my high school years. I am not interested of having a reunion with them. But I do have a reunion with my elementary classmates... We really have a lot of fun, I imagine for how many years that you haven't seen one another, all of you are there together once again. A lot of things may have change, some of my classmates who are quite during our elementary years are now talkative but there are still others who remain like they are many years ago. Some of my classmates faces matures and some are still glowing like in the past.It was a very noisy party because everyone are talking about their past and all those years that they haven't met. All those memories in the past, when all of you will look back, it is just it makes you smile and some will laugh at.It was a memorable experience to be in a reunion.

As you have said people change. It is either for good or for worst. Anyway, seeing this old classmate again is still exciting to me. I still wanted to make contact with them and reminiscent the past that we have. I still wanted to know how they are doing in life and what they have attend to. Life is really to short. We hardly notice that years are already passed by until we realized that we have wrinkles on our forehead. I laughed at myself. Funny it might be. But for me, I always treasure my classmates and people whom I know in life specially those whom I shared during my developing years in school.