Cheyenne Jackson Proves Attending Your High School Reunion Can Be As Satisfying As You Imagine
In an Instagram post, actor Cheyenne Jackson speaks about attending his 30-year high school reunion and not knowing what to expect. The result? He says it made him feel like part of a community and helped him consolidate all the bad memories, replacing them instead with closure.
It’s the Romy And Michele fantasy come true
Many gay people come away from high school with scars. Scratch that, every person comes away from high school with scars. The ultimate dream for many of us is to return to our hometowns, now fully grown and successful, and get vindication from those who may have made high school hell.
For Cheyenne Jackson, he found that the experience was a lot more wholesome than “winning” the reunion with his success. “I wasn’t going to go to my 30th high school reunion. High School was a confusing, painful, awkward time for me,” he writes on Instagram. “But it wasn’t all miserable. Over the years I’ve conflated the experience in my mind. For there were also incredible, core memory moments.
“I reconnected with and looked into faces I hadn’t seen in 30 years. We shared our struggles, our stories of losing parents. We walked the hallways of our tiny school and shared funny memories and anecdotes and I felt part of a community.”
As messy and traumatic as high school is, Jackson talks about being able to find the closure that’s so rare for many of us. He even got an apology from his high school bully which was unexpected. “It’s funny how we can reframe things. My high school bully apologised to me and I accepted it,” he writes. “I’m so proud to be a poor kid from the backwoods of the northwest. I don’t run from it anymore.”
