so, my 10 year reunion is coming up and my younger sister has been pestering me to attend. there are a number of reasons why i don't want to attend, which i'll list here in no particular order.
i now live about a 5 hour drive away from the city, which would mean i'd have to shell out fuel costs or pay for a bus ticket to get there, which is expensive. if i go by bus, i have to go for a week (Sat-Sat) because the nearest bus stop is over an hour away from here and my partner can't get me there or pick me up again during the week. and then i have to worry about hostess gifts for the people i stay with during that time, meals, transport within the city, and, of course, the ticket to the reunion.
apart from the financial issues, i just really didn't enjoy my time at the school, and only really had anything approaching friendship with about 3 girls, none of whom will be at the reunion as they all live overseas now. the rest of the girls were really shades of the Plastics from Mean Girls. i already have extremely low self-esteem and i don't think that would be helped in any way by spending time with people who i know will tell me how great it is to see me to my face, and then turn around and say how fat i've gotten (which is true, i have put on weight since high school, and i am working on losing it) and how i haven't achieved anything (which is not true, but these are the kinds of people who measure achievement in university degrees, cars, and rings). maybe i'm being ungenerous... is that even a word?
and then there is the fact that my partner is not invited, which cheeses me off somewhat. it's a "girls only" thing. which i just think is silly. what, are we 6?
anyway, i'm just wondering if any of you have had your 10 year reunions? did you go? what was it like? if you were in my shoes, would you go? will i regret not going?