On Saturday night I went to my 20 year high school reunion.  It was amazing.  A night of ‘oh my god I haven’t seen you for 20 years!’, hugs, kisses, and catch ups.

A night full of reminiscing, remembering and reuniting.

A time to reconnect with people with whom I spent some of the most intense, excrutiating and formative years of my life.

An opportunity to cram 20 years into a 2 minute conversation.  To bury old grudges. And discover commonalities that didn’t exist 20 years earlier.

I absolutely loved it - for many reasons.  But here are my top 3:

1. I went to school with some amazing people.  I didn’t necessarily know they were amazing whilst at school. But I do now.

2. At school I was insecure, self conscious and unconfident.  But then so were most of the rest of my class.  I didn’t realise that at the time either.

3. School is intense.  But it’s not the be all or end all.  It is only the beginning.

I had a great night at the reunion. But one of the night’s best moments was arriving home.  It was a balmy night and a soft breeze was floating through the open windows, my kids were having a ’sleep over’ in the spare room, tucked up together in the big bed, and my husband was snoozing in our bed with the two cats at his feet.

All was right in the world.

And I felt incredibly content with my lot.

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