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Are High School Reunions Necessary At Our Age

Aug 20, 20245 min
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Episode description

JLJ asks the question in the title of the show. Social media has changed everything. We aren't out of touch. Plus Yearbooks and cursive writing.

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Speaker 1

Oh no, don't just your TV sets or computers or tablets or whatever sam a TV sets. So what I did there, I'm James Junior, and this is fifty plus. I'm doing a video version. I usually do audio and I just sometimes I do video sometimes I feel like it. I feel like doing it today. So when you check out all my All my weekly every Tuesday, fifty plus comes out new episodes audio where we get your audio podcast but occasionally do video. Uh. And part of me

is kind of you know, inspired. I'm fifty plus, clearly, and I don't know much. I don't go to school, and I don't I'm not in high school, not like that. Clearly. Do they still do your books? I think they do right, But are your books really important? My brother I WoT this the other day because all your books were you know, we didn't have social media and ast I don't think with social media we're talking about your books. We're talking about reunion because I know my class had a reunion recently.

It's a small group, but they had I mean I had a large class with a small group. Still get you know, one part of this Facebook check group whatever they get together. I noticed that as you get older fifty plus, they'll combine years just because a lot of us are gone, or it's just easier that way. Just that a couple of years. I haven't gone any of my unions, so I've gone any of ten twenty. I have high school for a reason. But what what yearbooks

we're talking about? Your books are snapshots of your year in school? Right? A yearbook? This great? So I was wondering. I was wondering. This is my father's from nineteen sixty seven, which is Maillards High School, and my mother was there too. I'm sorry, So I can find my father in here. I'm sure he's in a bunch of these things. But let's see. So that's winter sixty seven, see right, I mean in my yearbooks, I lost mine in fire. So I'm on a year books that I have at home.

Got some uncles in here, and one of these he went to high school. The chanced to my mom. My uncle's in several these. There's a lot of organizations. Okay, I'll trying to see if I can find really quick, but they just, oh, here we go. Well, no, they only did the seniors. That's really interesting. They only featured the seniors. Okay, Well, anyway. So on social media, you can have your class, your school gam page, your class gar page, you grab a page. Are you talking about

the kids talking to their lives all the time? Now? Reunions? Do we need them? Because basically you can stay friends or in touch with someone if you're a younger dreation now from elementary to adulthood. At this point, for me, it was finding people after all these years that have connected us. There's certain and I'm talking to certain ones. I want to talk to you anyway. So I was like, it's almost like I don't need a reunion. I mean, I know in person, the same thing is it's online.

But in many cases it's fine. I can just talk online and see each other and see what's going on, and that's good. So I don't know, so I said just something. I was just I was kind of thinking about that as we get older and now in this day and age where everything's that everybody's sharing everything. My people are on social media too, and everybody everybody's on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook, Twitter, every thing. So it's like you kind of can post your updates before it's

like I haven't seen you in ten years. Oh, I got, how are you? So when I have my my my tenure reunion, I graduated, so I go to twentiears after this this thing, twenties after this, I graduated eighty seven. So in my ten years in ninety seven, they're no social media. My twenty years two thousand and seven, my Space was happening and Facebook was just happening. That was it. It came to my thirty year in twenty seventeen or whatever I was I was, I was like, I almost

was gonna go ye. But by then I had actually connected with a lot of folks from high school that I wanted to. I didn't want to talk to anybody. I didn't know. I was just couldn't reach out of high school. And that's the thing too, A lot of us don't have the girls us rus will get out of it. So I was like, okay, but will it become obsolete at some point? I say, the unions are always if you liked your high school, your college, or

I just go whatever. The reunions are necessary. Want me if you want to meet in person, have human contact. We never lose community context. Obviously we need it. Then you should do it. But I don't know I'm just I'm just very like you know, for me, I'm good, all right, just little thoughts because it actually started from a conversation of kids don't rite cursive anymore, and we're like we do they meek or Zo, I'm James I Junior. I'm drifting west and I'll talk to you next time.

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