Article/Pinocchio

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Some people define the relationship between classmates this way: you are not from the same world, but the school has arranged you to be in the same place. A place where *** has gone through a period of time.

Becoming a classmate is just an accident, but entering a different world is inevitable.

When I attended a class reunion some time ago, a female classmate laughed at me for using a domestic mobile phone.

Because people nowadays have the habit of never leaving their mobile phones, everyone put their mobile phones on the dining table during the dinner for fear of missing calls and messages.

I also took out the domestic mobile phone I bought for more than 1,400 last year.

As if she had discovered a new world, classmate Lily picked up my phone and looked at it over and over, "Oh my God, you are actually using this kind of phone? It's so economical. Isn't your husband very profitable?" Why didn't I buy you something better?"

Then she took out her latest Apple model and said, "Look at this. My boyfriend bought it for me in Hong Kong last month. It's a limited edition. "

The Lily who said this used to sleep on my upper bunk. She was a very simple girl back then. I heard that I went to Guangzhou after graduation, got married once, and later divorced. Now I am hanging out with an older boss.

I am a bit dissatisfied with her ridicule. Are people who use limited edition mobile phones necessarily happier than those who use domestic mobile phones?

After glancing around, the mobile phones on the dining table were all Apple. Do you want to be slapped in the face like this?

I thought the purpose of the class reunion was to enhance the relationship between classmates and connect them with each other, but the content of everyone’s chats completely changed.

Classmate Mengmeng said that she went to Europe last month and bought some brand of bags. I had never heard of the brand she mentioned, and I didn’t remember what she said. I lamented that I was really Too uninformed.

Then classmate Xiaoqing said that her husband bought three bags of that brand for her when he went on a business trip last year. "My mother is dead."

Some students asked why the squad leader didn't come. A classmate who knew about the situation said that the monitor had lost all his money by speculating in futures some time ago, and his wife ran away with the children. Didn't attend.

The league secretary did not come because he was performing abroad. It is said that she is doing well in the entertainment industry and is considering going to Italy for further studies.

I remember seeing an evaluation of the class reunion on Zhihu: “The class reunion filters out those who fly too high, those who go too far, those who get along too badly, and those who have too strong personalities. ...There is a group of classmates left in the same coordinate system who confirm to each other every year, "So you are still living like this."

Don't try to think that after many years, those friends will still be the same friends when they were studying. , their differences in experience and knowledge have widened the distance between them.

You can show off your wealth, your looks, your kids, your drinking capacity at the class reunion, but you can't show off your poverty. Everyone looked afraid of being looked down upon by others, as if all their hard work was just to be looked down upon when they meet old classmates again.

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Last year, several high school classmates encouraged the class monitor to organize a class reunion. It has been fifteen years since graduation and it was time to get together.

The class monitor created a WeChat group, and everyone invited students they could contact to the group.

There were several female classmates who used their own photos as avatars. I looked at them for a long time without recognizing them. Who were these from back then? I don’t know if it’s due to the beauty camera, but everyone has changed a lot.

There were less than 20 people at that party. After greeting everyone, the few people who liked Zhang Luo the most began to get to the point.

Some people ask if you need a second-hand car? Some people who are now engaged in micro-business have instilled in everyone that women should be tougher on themselves. When it comes to taking weight loss pills and applying hydrating masks, everyone is an old classmate and can enjoy the lowest discount when buying from her. That night at the dinner table, three female classmates transferred money to her.

After the class reunion, I found that the relationship between classmates was not brought closer because of this gathering. Whoever I was close to when I was in school is still the only one I associate with now. Those classmates who added each other on WeChat when they met again still had no communication after that. Occasionally, a like in the circle of friends means that they are paying attention to each other.

Classmates became the most familiar strangers.

The recently popular "Beijing Women's Illustrated Book" has a section describing a class reunion.

Chen Ke attended a class reunion when he returned to his hometown. Only five years after graduation, she found that she was already out of tune with her classmates. She remained silent the whole time, watching her classmates set up the dragon gate array.

In her opinion, class reunions are just a stimulant for growing up classmates. People who do well in life strive to gain a sense of presence; people who do not do well in life strive to gain a sense of presence.

The movie "The Last of Us" also has a scene about a class reunion. Lin Jianqing took Fang Xiaoxiao to attend the class reunion. Because he was afraid that his classmates would look down upon him, he beautified his life in Beijing. But he heard two classmates talking about him in the bathroom, laughing at him for bragging.

It seems that the scenes about class reunions in movies and TV dramas are not positive, but full of ridicule.

I really can’t figure out why those people who cried their hearts out at the graduation banquet looked so hateful when we met again many years later.

The once passionate young man was turned into a cunning old man, polite and cautious, full of hypocrisy.

Where can I find the innocence I had back then? I'm afraid it only exists in memory.

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I have a male classmate who doesn’t attend every class reunion on the pretext of working overtime.

A classmate who knew about it revealed that his wife did not allow him to participate. Because this male classmate was a popular figure in our school back then, and all the girls in our class liked him.

His wife is worried that unnecessary trouble will be caused by the class reunion. Isn’t there a saying that goes, “When classmates get together, families are broken.”

First love may be the most unforgettable. It basically happens on campus, which means you may see your first love again at the class reunion.

If you just talk about the current situation of your classmates at the dinner table and chew on the old stories, it doesn't hurt. I'm afraid it will affect each other's family unity. That's a big sin. Don't let the once beautiful feelings change.

In fact, I met that male classmate by chance later. As time went by, he became a greasy uncle in the crowd who I would never look at again. He weighed close to 200, and he was not the same as the handsome young man he once was. There is no way to contact them together.

Let’s keep people from the past in our memory. It’s easy to miss them when we see each other again.

When attending class reunions, most people are curious and want to see how their former classmates have changed.

I was also trying to find those green years, longing to meet myself when I was young, but found that I wanted to buy sweet-scented osmanthus and carry wine with me, but in the end it was not the same as being a teenager.

Times have passed and circumstances have changed, but the old people will never return.

About the author: Pinocchio is an aunt born in the 1980s who is upright, gentle and has a wide range of hobbies. Her main business is running a clothing store and her side job is writing. One is to decorate people's appearance, and the other is to enrich people's soul.