Should I go to my high school 25yr reunion?
Got my 25th coming up, June 3-4. I went to Jesuit High School in New Orleans and when I graduated I basically punched out of the city. Nice to place to visit, shitty place to grow up and live, in my opinion.
Anyway, haven't kept up with anyone and it's an all boys school so it's not like I'm going to run into an old girlfriend or something. There are a couple guys I'd like to see but that's about it. Is this just part of the American Experience and therefore something I need to do? Finally, as you know, every weekend during IM training is extremely valuable but I know I can work around that. You folks do it all the time 
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How important were those four short years to the place in life where you now find yourself? I find that the older I get, the farther in the past those years fade, and the less they mean to me. Raising a family, going on 36 years with a great woman who every day continues to astound, excite and impress me (I hope the feelings are reciprocal), and enjoying the friends and life I now have makes those four years back when I was a goofy, insecure teenager seem a bit minor in the big picture.
In the end, there are only a very small handful of HS friends I would actually enjoy seeing again, and most of them I've either maintained contact with or have been able to reconnect with through Facebook. I didn't go to my 25th.
Good points, all, especially about the money. I'm sure that by the time I looked into flights/hotel/car I'd come to the same conclusion. I'm sure that most of these guys would driving across town vs flying across the country so quite different. NOLA people don't seem to ever leave. Through FB a lot of high school and grade school people have found me and last year I was even invited to a GRAMMAR school reunion. WTF? I couldn't wait to get out of there when I graduated.
Nemo, pretty funny description!
I would have liked to have gone to my college 20 (last year, in Atlanta) but it was the same weekend as Everest Challenge.
Penny and I went back for my 20th reunion. But to quote Marcella (Joan Cusack) in Gross Point Blank, "It was just as if everyone had swelled." Didn't recognize hardly anyone.The most entertaining part was that one of my classmates had become a divorce attorney and had handled quite a few divorces for our classmates. I think one guy was a client 3 times. Good to see that catholic all boys education stuck.
Would I have traveled for this minor bit of entertainment. Not a chance in hell.
Go back. You'll feel skinny and younger.
I'd go to yours just to see the expression on most people's face: "So, what do you do for a living Rich?". "I'm a long course triathlon coach, all internet based". "Really? I guess your wife must make a lot of money"
Tom,
Same thing here re they stayed and I moved. It's a great school and I always say I was MUCH smarter when I graduated high school than when I graduated college (Emory University, Atlanta). All the guys I took classes with (I was in the accellerated program or whatever they called it) were going to big names schools and I'm sure they're all very successful. I just can not imagine wanting to stay in New Orleans to live...
And from pics on Facebook everyone looks 10-15yrs older than me. I'm sure I'd be "that guy" and all I'd do all weekend is answer questions about triathlon, etc. In the end, I've decided the only reason why I'd want to go is to get some kinda of self-satisfaction and if I'm thinking about spending $$$ for that, then I'm better off looking into a race around the same time frame or budgeting money for a camp in the Sierras, you know, stuff I actually like to do
I have been to exactly NONE of my college reunions (this year is 20 years). Again, I graduated and hit the road, never looking back. It was a small class (25 or 30 women). You would think I would want to go, but I don't. My friends that stayed in Baltimore could not seem to manage to keep in touch with someone that moved across country. So lost touch with everyone and have moved on from that time in my life. I feel like I am someone else and not really interested in explaining.
I'd vote "no".
And what's wrong with this?
I've got my 20th this summer. I've also kept in touch with the folks that really meant something to me over the years, and they're fewer and farther between the further removed high school is. I'll also be home to visit my dad, as it's right around his birthday as well.
Nothing at all!! But if you were kinda hoping to show up at the reunion to feel smug around the former "cook kids" who ended up doing not much with their life, you are likely to be disapointed.
Jesuit High School? Get Out! I went to one of those and have a 25 year reunion in the fall (offseason, so I might go). During the training season - probably not. I find there is a reason you don't keep in touch.
Triathlon advice?: Semper ube sub ube, except when you are racing.