Yikes, my 40th year reunion!

This weekend my husband and I will be attending my 40th high school reunion. Yes, I know I look way TOO  young, but it is true!! I was born in a small town in northern BC, that would also make me a Canadian, eh? I have never been to a reunion until now. I decided to go for many different reasons, but the main reason IS -  I felt like it was a natural part of my journey at this time in my life. These last few years I have been trying to peal off the layers that I have cleverly put on myself, the layers are coming off gradually revealing who I really am so that I can live up to my full potential. So this weekend is a tad bit out of my comfort zone but that that seems to be where I like to hang out lately, here I go out of my comfort zone again!!


You see I "survived" high school and lived for the day that I would move on with my life. I was neither the smartest, the most beautifulest, most popular, most athletic, or the funniest or the slimmest. I wasn't the MOST at anything.  In fact, I was about AVERAGE with a lot of self doubt thrown in there for good measure. When I look back, I believe some of the wind was taken out of my sail when my dad died, before he passed on I remember feeling like I had the world by its' tail. But that is the past and this is NOW.


So here I am heading to my 40th reunion with butterflies. I have barely kept up with anyone from my class except by FB. My goal this weekend is to gain a new perspective of what my high school years were really like, a new perspective of my classmates that I admired from a distance. Life in high school is such a microscopic view in perspective to the rest of our lives. Who are we all now, what are we most most proud of today, where are our children, how many glorious grandchildren do we have, what makes us happy or sad, where are you on your journey in life? I am most curious about my classmates life's since high school and that is what I look forward to hearing the most, the stories of life after high school. We will all be bonded for life because of "time" in some strange way. I long to know in a much deeper way my classmates whom I spent time with day after day, for many years. I will hear their perspective of life which will give us all a greater understanding and compassion for each other .


 I am still neither the prettiest, smartest, funniest or slimmest but I am uniquely me and that is a gift I can give others. Well here I go, one more thing off my "bucket" list or should I say my "life" list!Yikes!