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05/14/2006: "The Last Dance: Things Will Never Be The Same Again"
A few weeks or months--they all run together when you’re a writer--I posted about my all year high school reunion “The Last Dance.” Well, this weekend was the “The Last Dance.” Tah-Da!! The reunion consisted of an Ice Breaker Friday night, a long talk with a wonderful classmate who I didn’t really know well in high school, and then the actual reunion “The Last Dance” on Saturday.
Of course I went because I love watching people, love new experiences, weird experiences, experiences in general. But this morning I wondered if I went for another reason, too. And lo and behold I got my answer through the radio.
As I was pondering reunion attending, and as synchronicity would have it, the Michael McDonald song, “I Keep Forgetting We’re Not in Love Anymore” began playing. And suddenly I came to the realization that maybe we attend reunions because it’s a human quality to forget that “things will never be the same again.”
Even though the reunion was fun, it was sadly nostalgic. It was fun to see people I haven’t seen in years, realize they still have the same cute mannerisms, same great senses of humor and lust for life. However--and the howevers are usually the sadly nostalgic--some things stay the same, yet my ability to tolerate the silly little games I once was willing to put up with "will never be the same again." At 16 I thought I could fix people who were dishonest, who don’t follow through and/or are rude. Now I know I can't, and I don't want to. Drama Mamas just aren’t fascinating to me! What liberation!
So I pose the question to you: Do we go reunions because we want to reconnect, or do we go because subconsciously we know that “things will never be the same again” and at reunions we learn how to move forward?
All I can say is, thank goodness I don't have 80s hair anymore 
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