SYNR Reunion

Something that I loved about Thanksgiving break this year is that it gave me and my high school friends a chance to see each other after several months, and for most of us, years. Alexa and I have finally been able to reconnect and catch up these last couple of months and decided our "SYNR" reunion. My group of friends in band were a rare and tight knit group and banded together senior year to come up with a phrase that we would write on our cars, made shirts for, and who knows how else we used it, but it stood for Senior Year No Rules. We decided to facebook invite our group of friends from high school back to our regular trivia spot that we frequented fairly regularly 4 or 5 years ago. To be completely honest, I was nervous driving up to the Suburban Tap on Wednesday night. I just had a feeling the night was going to go only one of two ways--either a good night, with laughing, reminiscing, and catching up on the "Where are you now?" type questions or it was going to be a complete and utter disaster with few people there and that I was going to be looking for a way out after about 45 minutes of forced conversation.

I ended up having so much more fun than I could have imagined! More people came than I thought would and people that I never thought would have shown up were there. We stayed there for hours, laughing, talking, making fun of each other like we always used to, and it seemed like few things have changed. My only picture of the night was with my favorite and closest group of friends from high school. FB#2 and all that entailed deserves a separate post that I will do....some time this week...

We even decided to hang out again just last night for the few of us that could and again, I would consider it a success. Something my friend Bonnie and I were talking about last night was that we just fell right back into who we were in high school. We are all quite different now from who we were--where we are in life, our view on relationships, the real world, friendships, and so many other things, but at heart, our personalities mesh much like they did in high school. The friendships I've had since high school (and longer for some) are rare and something that I never want to take for granted like I have from time to time during my college years.