Funny how ten years fly by

Funny how ten years fly by. Ken and I are both approaching our ten year high school reunion celebrations (his this year, mine in 2006). We all sat around tonight at home group and discussed the ins and outs of this event (that, face it, we never thought we'd get to....we're getting old!):

Funny how....
- ....the people you never heard much from (or much about) in high school are the ones who are making it big....starting up businesses, becoming famous musicians, winning Nobel Peace Prizes, having plants named after them.
- ....the biggest things we used to worry about in high school (i.e., what type of makeup we used, and whether our pants were just the right length, not too wide, but not too ankle-binding, either) are now silly. Those are all things you worry about before real life (and mortgages) hit you.
- ....you would get all nervous when you saw a teacher outside of school ten years ago, but now you see them as just another adult, someone to go up and socialize with....the age gap is lessening. (Is it too late to bargain for that B that should've been an A-?)
- ....you never thought you'd use some of that stuff you memorized or studied, but every now and then it comes up....such as how many tablespoons are in a cup, and the square root of 113 (well, maybe not for all of us).
- ....the people you envied and wanted to be like are, very likely, the people you wouldn't trade places with for the whole world right now.
- ....high school was all there was, all you saw, all you envisioned during those short four years. Every "tragedy" you experienced in the dating realm was "the end of all things." Crazy how it is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to all you've left to experience in life.
- ....the DJs at high school reunions crank up the music right where it left off....in 1995. Somebody tell 'em. (Here was our alma mater's DJ.)
- ....instead of comparing cars or scholarships, you're now comparing children with your classmates. Whose is cuter? Whose is smarter? By far, yours, of course.

(I am only speaking out of hear-say....I haven't been to my high school reunion yet, obviously. I'm sure I'm not too far off-base. But stay tuned for next year's synopsis of the "funny how's" straight from the front lines of T.L. Hanna class of '96. It promises to be a winner.)

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