Amelia Lester

So I may as well get introducing people.

I may as well mix.

The thing that was striking at my high school reunion is that no one mixed.

You basically just hung out with your friendship group from high school.

Ah.

Which brings me to my big surprising revelation from all this is that not only did I learn about myself from this reunion and it helped me get in touch with how I felt in high school and how that influenced decisions I subsequently made about my life, it also really strengthened my bond with my high school best friend.

And I think that's the other thing about reunions and why they're great is the people who you're already friends with, it helps you deepen your connection with them because there's all the nostalgia.

You revisit all these memories.

This is why Romy and Michelle's high school reunion, the 1997 classic, which apparently they're making a sequel of.

Well, I couldn't resist a clip from that.

I love that movie so much.

Apparently Gen Z love it too now.

And that movie is all about celebrating a friendship that has stood the test of time.

I have a friend who's still a very dear friend of mine who I was very close friends with in high school.

But we really just had a fabulous time like revisiting memories together, which is why I think Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion is such a great movie and connects with so many people.

Yeah.

I just think I've got a message for these people who are agonizing over it.

And my message is get over yourself.

I know that sounds harsh, but an article in The Atlantic recently, which was sort of interrogating the point of reunions makes the same point because the author of that article chose not to go to his 20th high school reunion.

because he kind of felt all these things like, is my life where I want it to be?