Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
If you’ve just had your 20th school reunion or, like me, are about to have yours I don’t need to explain my reference to this classic 90s film. In short it tells the tale of all of us in our mid thirties having to confront the horror of a high school reunion, in many cases desperate to show that we have changed. We know that 20 years have changed us in ways we just can not comprehend. We have suffered, we have lost, we have confronted demons, we have dealt with trauma, we have grown, we have matured, we have married, divorced, had children, lost children, lost marriages... life has happened. We are inexplicably not remotely like that bolshy eighteen year old leaving the gates of high school proudly proclaiming Destiny’s Child’s ‘I’m a survivor’. Survived what? But for many of us those teenage years were to be survived. I remember leaving school thinking that one could draw a very definitive line in the sand between those leaving school who had gone through the dreaded existential ...