Why Attend?

8 Reasons to Attend Your High School Reunion
When you first saw this invite, your first instinct may have been to not come. After all, adolescence is usually an awkward time that many people would rather forget rather than reminisce about. While some people will say that high school was the best time of their lives, this isn’t always true for everyone. Still, there are plenty of reasons why attending your high school reunion is worth the effort. Here are 8 reasons.

1. To Reconnect With Old Friends – Remember the best friend that you talked to for hours every night on the telephone and swore you’d never grow apart from? Unless you’re one of the lucky few, chances are that you haven’t seen one another in years and may even have lost touch altogether. Few events offer the opportunity to reconnect with people that were once important to you like a high school reunion, and you may never see them again if you skip the event.

2. To Come to Terms With Aging – Seeing new fine lines and more gray hair isn’t easy to deal with for most people. When you arrive at your reunion and realize that everyone is getting older, it can make the experience feel less isolating and help you come to terms with the fact that aging is an inevitable part of life.

3. To Network – Attending your high school reunion can be a great experience, but it may also afford you some networking opportunities that you would otherwise miss out on.

4. To Reminisce – Looking back at your high school career and sharing a few laughs with the people that were by your side for all of those great times can be very rewarding.

5. To Show Your Spouse Where You Came From – Attending your high school reunion with your spouse is a great way to share a part of your formative years. You can tour your hometown, introduce old friends and share stories that you’d forgotten all about, helping you forge an even stronger bond. 

6. To Party Like It’s 1997… Or Something – When careers and kids come along, opportunities to let your hair down can be few and far between. Your high school reunion will give you the chance to be surrounded by people your own age rocking out to songs you haven’t heard in years.

7. To Satisfy Your Curiosity – If you’ve ever wondered where people ended up and what they have done with their lives this is your chance to find out. Whether it is the motor head that constantly tinkered with his cool car or that guy who always raised his hand to answer the teacher’s questions, it’s fun to see what became of them.

8. Because Wall Posts Aren’t Real Conversations – Seeing pictures and Facebook status updates from your old friends or even sending a few messages back and forth just isn’t the same as seeing them in the flesh and catching up. As hard as it may be to believe, some people don’t even maintain social networking accounts. If you haven’t seen your high school friends since graduation, there’s no better place to catch up than the spot where you all went your separate ways.