Broome-time reunion

I’m in Broome today for work – I know, what a bitch of a job eh? – anyway I’m strolling through Chinatown trying to find a sandwich at 3pm – not easy – I almost had to go to Subway – when I spot a girl I knew at school.

She reminded me that it has been 25 years since I left high school this year.  25 YEARS!

How old did I feel?  As old as her at least.

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It was like that at the 20th reunion – I left with the realisation that there’s a reason why I don’t see that many people from school… they weren’t my friends then and the passage of time – with little or no contact – has not changed things.  I see the people I liked at school, and if I liked them and I don’t see them – well that’s usually because our lives have gone in different directions.

Still, it wasn’t a particularly comfortable feeling.  I wonder if the same applies to facebook?

8 thoughts on “Broome-time reunion”

  1. I’m the same way about seeing old friends from high school. The ones I liked are still in my life and the ones I didn’t have long since moved on. I signed up for Facebook with my married name and hid my profile so they can’t find me but a few somehow still did! I’m not sure how I feel about Facebook, it brings me back to the popularity contest of high school and now it’s a contest to see how many friends you can add.

  2. Broome has certainly changed over the years… it’s not the Broome I remember as a kid – but then I guess places just never are.

    Much like people from your old school I guess… I do have a couple of mates I wonder about – but like you said, we just take different turns in life – and end up in different lives I guess. Most people you go to school with you can recognise this straight away, but there are some you get close with, and you’re a little suprised later at the way you grow apart.

    Facebook is an eGuilt Trip on a huge scale… I’m bloody hopeless at using it as a tool for annoying others with – but it has some other functions that help me keep in touch with certain things.

    Cheers 😉

  3. Well said.

    I think everyone has a time in their life from which they gather their closest friends. For some it is pre-school, for some it is high school, for some it was when they hit the workforce or travelled overseas. For me it was university and when I had children and I am at peace with that.

    I feel the same way when I see friends from school – happy to chat, happy to coffee, I have great memories but generally I leave it at that.

  4. It’s sad really that people don’t change more when they grow up. 🙁

    I’ve had some interesting experiences with Facebook. Like being contacted by a guy who actually sang “You Give Love a Bad Name” to my face when we were 13. WHY would he want to make contact with me now???? It is an odd change of reality. Then again, I made contact with someone who REALLY made a difference in my life many years ago and it was really special to find him and be able to tell him. So it has it’s usefulness in my mind.

  5. In the last 5 years I’ve met up with two people I knew at school (20 odd years ago) but we were never friends. In both cases we bumped into each other, had a chat and because we lived in the same area this happened several times. The chats became longer conversations and now I consider both of these people to be two of my closest friends.
    We laugh when we think about school and how our lives and interests were so different then. Now we have children the same ages, common interests and generally see life in a similar way.
    I feel very lucky.

  6. To Lightening – possibly the 13 year old who sang that to you was in love with you at the time. That is how 13 year old boys operate in an unconscious manner sometimes. Aside from that – he was only 13. Most 13 year olds have no social graces – maybe he wants to make contact with you to apologise. Maybe you could put him out of his misery and contact him and then let us all know how it went.

    I met a girl I vaguely remembered at high school and we have been very good friends for 16 years now.

    Last week I contacted through Friends Reunited my 1st year high school best friend, 33 years ago, who happened to live in the next suburb to me and we reunited over a couple of bottles of wine (I reminded her we went to the 1975 BCR concert) and are now hoping to organise a class reunion. It is such good energetic fun. And you get to find out how other people are doing.

  7. It’s 41 years now since I was in school. Since the day I left I haven’t seen a single one of those kids. I didn’t have friends at school, so I probably wouldn’t even recognise any of them now.

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