Not Getting Back Together
- Reunions -
By Ruel S. De Vera, Associate Editor
Sunday Inquirer Magazine
REUNIONS sound universally heartwarming in concept: old friends spending time together after years or maybe even decades apart, reliving old memories with a laugh, perhaps even old romances rekindled. The truth is never so easy, of course. This only really works if you enjoyed the previous time to begin with. For anyone who considered high school difficult and college a personal hell, then reunions are nightmares waiting to happen.
Others cannot understand how you don’t want to attend reunions when they had such a good time in college. But, like yearbooks and grades, college is not the same for everyone. There are demons private and public, regrets secret and disclosed, even enthusiasms hidden and unleashed.
The push to attend reunions gets even stronger when the five-year and the ten-year periods after graduations came by. But aren’t there batches who simply don’t want to reunite? Some batches reunite as quickly as five days after graduation, while others won’t even after five decades.
