Oh, Troy...
I sometimes wonder what it'll be like to go back to my hometown and make some videos, just like these guys here. Kidding! LOL No desire whatsoever to do that.
I was talking to my sister (who keeps in touch with a ton of people I have no interest in talking to) and she says people send 'their regards' all the time. I have never felt the need to 'reconnect' with people I knew when I was a kid. Or with high school classmates. Really.
Going back to your hometown can be a bittersweet experience. Don't yo think, Constant Reader? What about you? Do YOU enjoy this kind of exercise in nostalgia?
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I have friends from the way back but I choose to keep them as friends, and most are post-high school. Just cuz I knew you then means that I want to know you now. Not bad, but people change.
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OMG yes.
DeleteSome people reached out to me when I was on Facehook and I though: I did not like you back then. What makes you think you'd be more palatable now? Beat it.
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nice guys!!!
ReplyDeleteabout your "I have never felt the need to 'reconnect' with people I knew when I was a kid. Or with high school classmates. Really" that's the reason why I never hahve had a fb profile!
Same, Xersex.
DeleteFacehook was a trap. I did not want to be their friends online, same as I didn't want to be their friends way back. And most of my childhood friends because drastically different when they grew up, so there's that.
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Big says,
ReplyDeleteNope. No desire whatsoever. I used to spend my vacays on trips home. Then realized that most people couldn't bother to drive 5 or 6 miles to see me. Haven't been back since. High school people? Ugh. No way. Never attended a reunion and never will. They were all a bunch of assholes. The one real HS friend is still in touch via email and the occasional phone call. XOXO
Hahaha.
DeleteI used to spend summers at home and that's when I discovered that many of those people and I had nothing in common. High school? I had some very close friends but they all got married and had children and became someone else. I have never attended a high school reunion. Ever.
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I do keep in touch with select friends from university, but not from high school or my home town. I'm not a sentimental or nostalgic person. Once I move on, I move on.
ReplyDeleteOh, college friends are different.
DeleteI see a bunch when I go to conferences. But I think the link it's different. We have more things in common, too. We love to go to a bar and rag about our bosses LOL.
Same with moving on here...
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My primary care physician is in my hometown, so I go back regularly. Because of 4 years in the Navy, and then 4 years in college, and getting a job somewhere else, I don't keep in touch with any of the people I knew.
ReplyDeleteOhhh That's a twist.
DeleteAnd I can imagine that being away in the Navy and then college would break some of those links. Not to mention working away.
I literally keep in touch with about six people I knew when I was eighteen.
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HuntleyBiGuy:
ReplyDeleteLike most of the others I don’t have any connection to high school friends. We all went on different paths and I’ve never been to a reunion. I don’t do FB but I have had minimal contact with a couple schoolmates via LinkedIn. I don’t make connections easily so there are few lasting relationships.
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Never been to a high school reunion either.
DeleteAnd I forgot you are on LinkedIn. And you're one of the warmest people I know. It's unusual you don't make connections , babes...
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I have been back for a couple of funerals and my sister lived back in my home town for a few years. I went back for a 25th High School reunion, I realized I had little in common with the people all those years ago, and even less now. My 50th will be coming up in a few years, and I am wondering if I will go.
ReplyDeleteOMG 25th?
DeleteAnd I can imagine that none of those people were the people you knew! Whoa. Cannot imagine what the 50th will be like....
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