Fast Forward 30 Years

Fast Forward 30 Years

This weekend I am going to a special event and completing a UBBT goal. I am traveling to my hometown in North Central Saskatchewan to attend my 30 year high school reunion. Considering that I have not seen my classmates since our 10 year reunion, and some of them since graduation, this will be an event.

We all remember each other as we were in high school, but that was high school and this is now. Are the cool people still cool, are the jocks still jocks, did the brainiacs do something with themselves and what became of the stars and starlets? It's a curiousity that will be settled this weekend with some being surprises, some being expected, some being disappointments, and some will be sweet revenge. (Did I just write that?)

Our graduation theme song was "Road to Paradise" but no one told us that the road was loaded with potholes, forks, and washouts in amongst the roses, fruits, grasses, and pots of gold. Each of us for graduation wrote a piece saying what we were going to do with our lives. It will be entertaining to see just who did what and who stuck to the "plan". Did we stay the same, did we change or is it a combination?

I can say that for me I did what I said at grad, but only a few short years later was bored out of my tree and began to search for something more (okay a hell of a lot more) along my road to paradise. Where I am now is nowhere near where I started at grad and thank God for that! Have I reached paradise? No, but I've reached a pretty good vacation spot: for now.

Sherri Donohue
UBBT 8 Student Member