High school reunion

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I want to go, but if I do people there will ask what I've been up to(like they care). They'll put on this show that we were friends, when we know we weren't. I was nobody to them. If I got murdered, they wouldn't attend my funeral. Yeah, those kind of people. But if I don't, I won't see my friends again until 2021. I can't go, anyway. Too much distance, too little time. I wish this wasn't so hard.

Go to see the friends you did have, not the ones who want to act like friends now. As for their questions on what you do, you can always keep that a mystery by giving them vague answers. You do not have to lie to them, just do not really give them a clear answer that they want to hear. With me, I just go into some details of my research topics that I work on and watch their eyes glaze over like a dead fish. That in itself can be fun to do, as they have not a clue how to respond back to me. The majority of my high school classmates are heavily alcohol drinkers at the reunions, so they will likely not remember anything of what I said anyway. They just want to be able to relive their youth a bit, while I try hard to forget about mine.

I didn't want to go to my 10 year reunion for the same reason so i didn't go & I haven't regretted it. I just wanted to be done with school when I was in school & I was so glad to be done with school when I graduated high-school I never wanted to go back.

I don't think my high school has reunions, that is reserved for places where hope exists

You couldn't pay me to go to my high school reunion, I mean why would I? The other students mostly ignored me so there would be only a few people I'd have even the slightest interest in seeing again. And I don't know if they are interested in seeing me.

I've declined all invitations for reunions. I'm done with that place and not looking back.

I declined an invitation to a high school reunion in 1991 and will continue to do so. I have absolutely nothing to say to them.

People do that a lot. Sometimes people are friendly/act interested in you even though they are not too interested and dont consider you a friend. It is also possible they are genuinely curious as well about you and your life at some level.

Many people don't go to high school reunions for similar reasons (don't like the people there really, don't want to be reminded of it.)

Just make a decision that feels right!

Another reason I didn't go to my 10 year reunion is because I'm disabled & haven't done much with my life. I would of probably felt like a loser & been looked down on by everyone else having successful lives. I come from a very conservative area where their taught by the GOP that people on disability are lazy leaches sucking on the teat of the hardworking American taxpayer.

My high school was full of dropouts. Only two other people gradated the same year as me so yeah, you can see why I'm in no hurry to return.

For me, the main reason I didn't go to my high school reunions is that the planning was taken over by a corporation, which meant it was really expensive for a few hours in the evening. For my 20 year reunion, the presale price was $80 a person, then about $100 after that. Now, if I lived in a small town where the high school class was much smaller, and the alumni were the ones planning the reunion, I might have gone. Instead, I went to a large public high school in an urban area so the graduation was held at the football stadium. In the last decade or so, those graduations outgrew the high school stadium, so they're now held at the community college's stadium.

Thanks to social media, there are ways I can keep in touch with those I actually WANT to keep in touch with, which isn't that many people. Another thing is that once I was done with high school, I was done and the only reason I went back to that campus was to attend my brother's high school graduation 3 years later.