Ten Years Isn't Long Enough

Like most general life events, high school becomes a memory with vague boundaries. You remember the activities you participated in, some of your favorite teachers, and a funny story or two. But for the most part, the day to day affairs have drifted out of your memory and settled onto the pages of the yearbook where people you only now know through Facebook recount unfamiliar stories involving themselves and someone who shares your name. 

Time has passed. You went to college, got an education, and entered the workforce. Or maybe you didn't. Maybe you've spent the last five to ten years just working. Marriage, kids, possibly divorce? It doesn't much matter how you came to the future, all that matters is that you're here. 

At one point or other, you'll find yourself invited to a high school reunion. Nobody's forcing you to go, but 10 years isn't enough time to really wax nostalgic about your adolescence. Facebook has robbed your sense of morbid curiosity about the others because most everyone you went to school with is also living a fairly normal life. 

Out of boredom, you decide to have your own high school reunion from the comfort of your living room. You scroll though the profiles of people you haven't spoken to in nearly a decade. What you find is that you don't really need these people in your life, nor do you want to reconnect. 

Still, you leave them in your friend's list on the off chance that one day through the many years of time and change that you do have something to say to them. Thankfully, this can be said through an online message, and not at a high school reunion.