After 10 Years

Last December 26, the high school batch 1994 of Siena College of Taytay had a reunion at Club Manila East.

I can't say it was well attended but nonetheless, i'd like to consider it a successful event despite its only 50% attendance.

The first thing that came into my mind that night was, when I was in my high school, 10 years back, I don't think I have thought of us having a reunion after 10 years.

But we have and the moment happened last Sunday.

The night was a blast. It's always wonderful to see old faces that makes you remember fun and youth and laughters and almost all firsts of your life.

I saw old faces, most I have not seen since my graduation of 1994. Some, I may have, one way or the other, saw through the years but most, I have really lost communications with.

So many changed and yet, amidst all the laughing and shouting and reminiscin', I realised, we are all essentially the same as we were all before. Sure we may have "changed" (in its purest meaning), but deep down, the person we were before, I think, are still the same ones we are now.

I was thinking that if we all decided to come to the reunion wearing our uniform, it would be eerie but it would seem 10 years had not passed.

The night was simply a night of laughter, of hugging each other, of remembering names, of showing how things been in each lives, of how are the ups and downs and yet we are all there to share one moment in our lives, of how many has gained weight, of how one defines success and triumph ....

I love every moment of it, it must say! I enjoyed the night by even merely looking at faces of people I may not have been too close or even friends with in high school, people I recognized who have shared an experience with me in high school in some ways ... I think, in its essence, all people that night had the connection to one another that not one can explain.

We realise the moments when we were strong, moments when we were at our weakest, moments when we seem misunderstood, moments when we were laughing, moments when we thought it was over, moments when we share, when we have been united, moments when we were alienated... our antics, our triumphs, our funniest, our loneliest, the good and the bad, the braces and the hair ... hahahah ... I never thought reunions are as crazy as it had been with ours. All I do know is it sure is so much fun!

Through it all, we were there that night. All smilin'. Despite the differences in the paths we have taken, I felt that night merged all those paths into one memorable and foreverly remembered flashbacks.

For me, we have all been enriched by the lives we have lived. Whether it has been a hard life or an easy one, it has molded us into the persons we were that night.

I am proud of us. Everything is all there to be proud of. But I am most proud that we are all alive and living our lives to the fullest!

And I look forward to our 20th anniversary in 2014.

later.

ps,
yup, my high crush crush was there. amazingly, we talked to each other as 10 years ago, I can count in the palm of my hand when we actually had longer than 2 mins conversation to each other. hehehe .. have I outgrown my infatuation? .... hmmm ... didn't I say above that I think, essentuially, we have not changed?
later later.