Mini High School Reunion

January 11, 2009

I should have blogged about this way back last week, but 2009 started out sluggish for me, maybe because of the cold weather hehe. Anyway, third day of ‘09, my friends and I cooked up an impromptu reunion at one of our friend’s house. Because it was a long holiday, we sent text messages and called people up to see if they were still in the province and asked them if they could come for a small get-together. Everyone was asked to bring food and/or drinks good for five to 10 people.

At first we didn’t think many would come (we were expecting only about less than 10 based on the responses we got and because almost everybody was late), but 17 out of 155 is a good enough number for something unplanned like this one. Food was abundant and we still had plenty in case more people had shown up. It’s been 10 years since we’ve graduated from high school, and it’s high time we planned our grand reunion.

After pigging out and catching up on everybody else’s lives (even of those who weren’t there), we brainstormed for our grand reunion, slated to take place in December of this year. Good thing some batchmates who were there volunteered to head certain committees. Another follow-up meeting would be held next month to check the progress of our plans.

Anyway, the point of this post is that a significant number of my batchmates either are getting married, got married, have kids, are doctors, are engineers, are working abroad or have kickass jobs that rake in tons of cash. I couldn’t help but compare myself to them and realized how slow my progress has been (or how fast their progress has been). I still can’t see myself as having a family anytime soon. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I still think I’m too young to be a wife and a mother. I’m still in my 20s for crying out loud. Career-wise, well I guess I’m a slacker, or if I want to use a euphemistic term, a late bloomer. I’m a freelancer, but some of them find my kind of work an ideal one because I get to manage my own time and do the things I want to do and not get tied to a 9-to-5 office job. Well, yes, my kind of job has its perks, but it has its downsides too.

I went home, feeling quite ashamed that I haven’t accomplished that much, feeling I haven’t changed that much after 10 years. And then I reminded myself, I shall do things at my own pace and not compare myself to anyone.