This Saturday is my 25th High School reunion. Nothing formal. Bar night. Excuse to drink too much and share memories from a quarter century ago. I feel like a 25 year-old so this is a bit hard to stomach.
One of my friends emailed and thanked me for organizing it. She remarked how it’s funny how we just don’t seem to change our roles. It’s true. That was me in high school. And it remains me. The organizer. But it’s amazing how I think back and I don’t feel at all like that girl in high school except for that.
Remember The Breakfast Club? God. So definitive to my high school years. My friend Lynn and I could recite the entire movie, line by line. The ending is so true.
Flipping through yearbooks gathering pictures for this has been hilarious. It’s also been very freeing. I loved high school and have great memories from it. I have a ton of friends who I’m still in touch with and I’ve reconnected with people that I wasn’t all that close with but we’ve found commonality as we age. I love it. I really do.
But back to the Breakfast Club. When I think about who I really was and my internal struggles in high school, I recognize that I was about 80% Ally Sheedy and just hid it really, really well. The insecurity, the social awkwardness. It comes flooding back when I think about. But they really are just memories now.
Driving to work, I was thinking about the past 25 years. Flashbacks of memories, good and bad. I can honestly say, without hesitation, this is the happiest I have ever been in my life. Right now. In 2013. That girl is behind me. Finally. Except for the organizing part (UGH!). I guess we have to keep playing some roles.
I’d only want to go back to high school to change my hair. God. Really? (But whoa do I remember this vest. I thought I was John McEnroe.)
What about you? Come on Breakfast Club with me. Which were you? (and while we’re at….Sex in the City too).
How about a bonus Breakfast Club clip…. ah the Physics Club.
All I can say is I love you for posting this picture. I don’t have the nerve to post mine…. but let’s just say it was permed and cut in a wedge
My kids are named Charlotte and Samantha – how scary is that? Does that make me Miranda? I started watching the show again with my mom and girls and they appointed me SJP – maybe by default.
Re Breakfast club I have no idea- I am no one and everyone. Maybe Emilio Estevez…
Have fun- I want stories please xx
Have fun this weekend. I am sorry i can’t make it — the breakfast club analogy does make me both fond of and horrified by, high school.
cheers s
i had the social skills of ally sheedy but tried really hard to look like molly ringwald.
anyway, my high school pic looks just like yours…big hair (straight and short…figure that) but i was wearing a plaid shirt and a bolo tie. wonder why i never dated?
have fun and rock it completely OUT!
Oh, have a blast, Sara!! That pic – your hair is SO DARK!
Breakfast club only has the two girls to chose from… I’d have to say I was a bit of both, but I can’t truly identify with one or the other. Same for Sex in the City… I’m a bit of them all, though since our protagonist is “Carrie” and we get all her thought processes, I’d admit I’m most like her. (That said, I was married during the time that show aired, and I wasn’t a die-hard fan, since I couldn’t really relate. But it WAS fun!!)
It’s funny. I just read someone else’s blog this morning who said she is “Ally Sheedy” in the Breakfast Club. I have to be honest, she seems WAY more Molly Ringwald to me! And so did you from what I knew of you in HS (at least the popular, outgoing part). I think we are all Ally Sheedy’s but many of us are too afraid to admit it in HS.
I think that is the point of the movie, we all have a lot more in common than we like to admit at that age. We are far more complex. Some of us are just better at (or more motivated to) hide it. I tried really hard to conform in HS but there were times when I just couldn’t keep my real self hidden. It made me miserable to feel that way. Now I am happy to be me. It is far less stressful and way more fun.
Never watched Sex in the City so I can’t say who I am 🙂
Have fun at your reunion!