04 dec 06
CBS has a Monday night sitcom called The Class, which follows six third-grade classmates, now in their twenties. It’s pretty poor, but it’s on after How I Met Your Mother (Friends 2), which I like, so I often just leave the channel where it is and don’t really pay attention. (And tonight, dammit, I can’t find the remote.)
Of course, since The Class is a sitcom, all of these people who knew each other in elementary school are now coupling up in the present day, which is contrived and strange. You know what the funny thing is, though? The same thing is happening with a bunch of people I went to high school with. They’re dating each other, married to each other, and a few of them are dating/married to people they didn’t even date (or spend that much time with!) in high school.
Now, I loved high school and still keep in touch with plenty of people from those years (incredibly easy using the internet and Myspace), but still. Besides obvious reasons, I can’t imagine dating anyone from then, probably because I don’t think of myself as the same person at all. On some level, it’s kind of cool, but I’m curious if it’s at all normal. Are your high school (or otherwise) classmates getting together?
Meredith / 05 dec 2006 / 12:46 a.m.
Oh, absolutely. There is one couple on my myspace that are married, and the husband was my first boyfriend in high school. Well, for two weeks anyways. When I was twenty, I dated a guy I had known from high school for about six months. Now he’s getting married…to a girl from high school. The girl he’s marrying has a sister named wendy, who is also married to her high school sweetheart.
Some people just like to stay in high school forever. I’m like you. Besides being a completely different person, anything that reminds me of high school sends me into seizures.
tamara / 05 dec 2006 / 12:58 a.m.
It happened with one couple at my high school. They had the same circle of friends then, but they didn’t date. Then, they went to the same big university together. Upon graduating college, they started dating. And now, they’ll get married next year. Another late couple formed years after graduating high school. In general, my classmates hated each other because we became very competitive in grades and stopped communicating after graduation. However, we do keep up with MySpace and Vox.
Ez / 05 dec 2006 / 8:55 a.m.
At my 10 year high school reunion a couple years ago, I’d say at least 1/2 of the married couples were married to someone else from our school (not necessarily in the same class). Few of those moved far from our home town and all of those have parents still living in the same town. They all still hang out together 10 years later.
I agree with you: weird.
Aubrey / 05 dec 2006 / 8:58 a.m.
When I went to my husband’s cousin’s wedding shower, only two people there didn’t go to the same high school everyone else did; myself and someone else.
I talk to two people from high school. Two’s enough.
Claudia / 05 dec 2006 / 10:29 a.m.
Personally, I haven’t spoken to anyone I went to high school with because I hated them. Only recently has one of my friends from HS tried to find me, and chat with me, but so far nothing has come of that ;) I have different friends now, who aren’t really the type that would have given me a second glance if we were in high school together.
Laura / 05 dec 2006 / 11:36 a.m.
I’ve seen that happen in a couple cases. It’s kinda funny. Personally, I haven’t made very many friends since high school, so most of my good friends to this day are from high school. Not necessarily my school (since a lot of them went to different school), but those times. It was a lot easier to meet new people back then.
Emma / 05 dec 2006 / 3:32 p.m.
I don’t couple with former classmates that often… just on days that end in y! Ahahaha.
jason / 04 dec 2006 / 11:43 p.m.
out here in rural awesomeland, most of the people who were dating in high school are now married.
like you, i’m so different if not detached from who i was then, it would be impossible to have that kind of relationship with someone b/c of all the assumptions.