You do NOT need to be best friends with your old classmates, but they might actually now be real individuals who have real values and aren't all for that petty HighSchool BS. From a business standpoint and a life standpoint and a HACKER standpoint - the most important thing in my world is my network. Maybe you never got along with your old High School Crew, but now that they are older, they might be able to help you in numerous places in your personal and professional life. But simply ignoring them all together seems to be immature.
Your high school crew may be worth networking with. Mine really wouldn't be.
"but they might actually now be real individuals who have real values"
I disagree... with the word "might". I'm sure they are. My real point is, so what? Are real people so hard to find for you or something? I don't seem to have so much trouble. They're just people and I can find much richer sources of "people" for any given purpose than a high school reunion.
You're rationalizing an emotional belief. Love your high school all you want, I don't care, but don't fool yourself into thinking this is some sort of rational position. Mere coincidental colocation ten years ago is not even remotely the best way to choose anything.
It's an Ice Breaker. It's social. It's Human Interaction at it's finest. It's not what did u just say... a "Mere coincidental colocation ten years ago"??? Really?
You continue to speak as if "human interaction === high school reunion". No. You're either rationalizing or thinking fuzzily, though I'm beginning to trend towards the latter.
