Do you belong to your college & or high school Facebook group? If so what is that like?

I was very socially active in high school. Had lots of friends, male and female alike and we talked together in person every day. The reason we never really used Facebook or a similar platform was because our Swedish culture promotes physical interaction with people, not electronic alternatives. We knew exactly what each other was doing and when they were doing it and we only learned that by talking to each other face to face each day throughout the day.

On my last day of high school immediately after graduation, I was invited to join the Royal Swedish Navy where I entered their Marine Engineering program after they'd received a few recommendations from my Teachers at high school. I thought this would be cool, though the Navy was never on my radar as an option in my life.

Suddenly I found myself physically separated from the only people I knew, which were my old classmates from high school and of course family as I sat in the bowels of a ship in a windowless room filled with computer screens.

After 3 years of this and more to follow, I was finally able to reunite with my friends from school and they organized a big party in anticipation of my arrival in town, which was a small town in northern Sweden adjacent to the border with Finland and basically a rural community where everyone knows everything about you anyway.

The first thing I realized after we all met up after 3 years of my absence from them, was that they were still doing the same things in life that they were doing while we were all in high school, meaning they were working on their dad's farm, working at the grocery store in town or basically sitting around their parent's house playing video games all day until mealtime and their mom called them for supper.

For me, it was like going back in time to a place that I vaguely remembered as a horny high school student who was in love with every boy in her school it seemed, yet I could no longer hold a conversation with any of them because I had grown so far beyond where I once was with them, yet where they still remained 3 years later.

It was at that point that I realized that I couldn't do this 'class reunion' thing anymore because it had no relevance in my life, nor did it make me feel all warm and fuzzy after I got back together with my close friends that one time and so it all ended.