So my 40th high school reunion is this year (yes, I am THAT old, and I expect that this reunion will provide much blog fodder in the months to come.) I haven't been back to the town where my high school is in more than 20 years. My parents moved away from there not long after I graduated, and since I was divorced from tFoMC (my high school sweetheart whose parents lived there) there has been little reason to return. I haven't attended any reunions. I'm not sure why I didn't go to the 10th; at the 20th I was in Florida in grad school and pregnant with the Kid, and if there was a 30th I didn't hear about it. But thanks to FB, this one is attracting a lot of attention and I'm seeing names of people I havent' thought of it, well years--40 years for some of them.
Tonight just before my last service of the day I clicked on a FB message from our Class of 71 group, only to find a list of class members who have died. Oh my. Seeing those names of classmates, friends, crushes, even though I haven't thought of them in years, was sobering. The girl who tried to commit suicide in 10th grade. The guy who married his 8th grade girl friend. The funny girl who rode my bus. The president of the student government. All gone on to greater glory.
I went into church and sat in the quiet before the service and I thought about ashes. Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
Rest in peace Leslie, and Susan, and Susan, and Joey and Ralph, and Kenny, and Audrey, and Trudy, and Lee, and the ones whose names are unknown to me. Rest in peace.
3 comments:
This is such a lovely post. Thank you.
I attended a huge high school (4,000 students), and I haven't attended any of my reunions, as I suspect the people I would recognize wouldn't be there.
Still, I often wonder who's still alive, even though I graduated only 18 years ago. This semi-morbid musing comes in part from the fact that my high school yearbooks have obituary pages, and as a yearbook editor I cataloged the six deaths of my senior year.
There may have been more students lost, but the vice principals admitted it was easy to lose track of students. It wasn't always clear who had dropped out and who had died. Dust indeed.
I had a similar experience in the run-up to my 30th, not in numbers, but in learning that a classmate I worked with in a summer job had died not long before the reunion. Dust to dust.
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