Of all the most stressful moments in your life, here’s one that doesn’t immediately come to consciousness - your high school and/or college reunion.
Talk about an impossible combination of wanting everyone to see how much you’ve changed, and hoping everyone else is just the same. Yet no one is ever “just the same.” Everyone changes, for better, for worse. Some bright stars fade. Some wall flowers bloom. There are always a few surprising success stories as well as some tears and tragedies. Without witnessing our old classmates’ transformations on a daily basis, it is difficult to graft our old memories onto the new image before us. How could this paunchy bald guy be the captain of the football team? How could this flamboyant successful entrepreneur be the kid who sat behind you in English …