[MRM]

I did not enjoy high school while I was there but I grow more fond of it as the years pass. I don't live near any former schoolmates and I don't keep in touch with anyone by Facebook or anything like that. But I do very much enjoy our five year reunions. We had a small class in a very rural district and despite my discomfort with most everyone else in school, most of them were really good kids.

At our five year reunion most of the people were huddled in corners eyeing the other former cliques suspiciously, trying to decide whether to negotiate or renew old rivalries. One of our more well adjusted classmates, who happened to be well liked and well respected, went around to people telling us to let bygones be bygones and to mix with each other as adults. That set the tone for that reunion and the rest of them over the years.

From then on attending reunions has been like being in a time machine. Every time I see the class it's like I hit the five year fast forward button. We all remember each other as high schoolers and its fun to look at each other and see a spark of the kid we knew gleaming in the aging middle aged duffer in front of me. Wait, that's when I look in the mirror!

Anyway, the memory of high school is much better than the real thing and the adults are much more pleasant to be around than the kids. I'm glad I don't have to do it over again.