ext_22789 ([identity profile] rootlesscosmo.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gordonzola 2005-02-28 06:02 pm (UTC)

I went to my 30th, in 1988 (after ignoring 10th and 20th) and it turned out to be a good thing to do. I reconnected with the people in my old crowd, which had been my first circle of real friends (we were the Lefty beboppers) and found that I no longer had much in common with some of them, memorioes aside, but became fairly close friemnds again with two or three. And I reconnected with an important part of my past, namely my involvement with music, which I'd abandoned in my early 20s. The reunion itself--an afternoon dinner at a fancy New York hotel--was a bore, but the party at one old friend's apartment was really sweet. I think the fact that I'd been living 3000 miles away, completely out of touch with everyone from high school (and even rumored to have died) probably gave the experience a keener edge than if I'd been vaguely "around" all those years, but in any case I'm glad I went. (I skipped the 40th but if I'm still around three years from now I think I'll check in for the 50th.)

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