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Friends (not quite) Reunited
By ella | January 8, 2005
Last night I decided to check out a site I have been meaning to visit for ages.
Friends Reunited sounds like one of those sites that only sad geeks or losers with nothing better to do would visit. I’m a yummy-mummy with two children, a husband, two dogs and a filthy house which equals no time to do stuff like that.
But, as is often the case with stuff you imagine to be really boring (except raising children which is so much more boring than I ever imagined it to be), it was quite intriguing. Almost all the girls in my school year had registered on the site (many more than boys - we really are such social creatures). Seeing what they are up to is very odd. And it made me feel so middle-aged. Those that had posted photos made me feel faintly nauseous at the thought of the years that have passed that I haven’t even really noticed. Inside I still feel like the girl I imagine them all still to be.
What also surprised me was that so few of them seem to have children. Fair enough, but we are all reaching the age where, TICK-TOCK, the biological clock is taking over our reproductive thoughts so I can only assume that they don’t want/can’t have children, haven’t met someone who they want to father their children or are career professionals. From their brief entries most of them seem to be career professionals, perhaps a reflection of their privileged private education.
Perhaps because of that, I decided not to post any details of my life. Two children, a husband, two dogs and a filthy house didn’t seem to be on a par with their progress. And my previous life as a pop chick and high achieving academic-type? Well, that life doesn’t seem to be me anymore at all. If it were still me, I would gladly have found the words to show off my progress since school. But to say I gave it all up to be a professional housewife (although we all know, DON’T WE, that bringing up children is absolutely the most valuable thing you can do!) well doesn’t that reflect only my own career-stupidity? And I don’t need to be telling my former school friends about that.
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Why not? I would. You could make them feel superior without them even having to spin a load of bollocks, pretending that they’ve made somthing of themselves.