Chapter 308

This year is my 40th high school reunion year, except, you guessed it, it has been canceled like pretty much everything else where more than three people get together in the same room. But that doesn’t change the fact that we graduated from high school 40 years ago this summer! Holy cow! We are old!

So as most people and events and meetings are doing, we are moving to a virtual format. Facebook, where we are invited to tell our stories, what we have done and where we have gone to the graduating class of 1980. It is fascinating! Each story is filled with possibilities and potential, and tells you oh so very little about what actually happened. I want to research and write a book on each and every one of them! Their stories and possibilities capture my imagination and fill my mind. It makes me see each one of them in very different ways. I mean there is a great deal of difference between your memories of a certain cheerleader in high school and then reading that she owned and ran a daycare for tiny kids and loved it. 

That is what stories do, reshape our understanding of what and who people are, what their possibilities are, what they are capable of doing. This is why your story is so important, and why my story is so important. Our stories not only describe who we are, but they also can shape who we are, or at the very least who we aim to be. So tell your story. Tell it positive. Become the best version of you.