Today someone seems to have started a planing group on Facebook for our upcoming 10-year high school reunion. And as things go, when you’re suddenly forced to face the nicely suppressed fact that it has now almost been ten years since you left high school, I started to think. I’m hardly in contact with anyone from my high school time – to be honest, I couldn’t even remember all of the names of my classmates and we sure were a small class. And as much as I personally think I have changed since then,¹ I will probably fall right back into the old roles from then, gossip with the same people about the same other people. And so will everybody else. And while everybody will have changed – some more dramatically than others – once we fall back into those roles, we’ll all be thinking: “Phew, those people didn’t change much. Luckily I’m not like them and have grown in so many ways since then.”

All in all, it will be fun. If someone asks, what I’m doing these days, I’ll tell them that I’m a professional internet celebrity.

1. Well, I have a lot less hair. [↩]