It’s me the drama queen, Yubaba.
It was an incredibly wonderful day-much better than I expected.
It was great to feel I was so welcomed, probably because I hadn’t been there for decades.
oh there is no need for a pretense.
Well, in fact I’m feeling I was welcomed because it was me! HA!
I had almost forgotten even the existence of this group of friends.
In adult life we can make ourselves out to be whatever we want, to some extent,
But the pretense doesn’t work with friends from elementary school days.
Even you try to put on a front, your all friends will always see right through you.
They remember you wet your pants in your chair in the classroom.
They saw you got scold by teachers.
They know you always forgot homework.
Most of them have been married-some still are!-have children and jobs.
Isn’t it amazing?
We have grown up
Now we are definitely in the latter half of life.
I heard many, many stories about their lives.
A very cute girl who was always quite popular among the boys, stayed single till she was in her forties then got married to one of our friends, who was divorced with two grown children.
They met again at the last reunion several years ago.
I was surprised to hear that quite a few ex-classmates were divorced.
There seem not to be vivid differences between the metropolitan and local towns nowadays.
My home town is known as a spa resort.
And the party was held in a hotel in the resort.
Rooms were assigned four to a room according to the old student list, by the order of our (now maiden) family names.
There were four women who were over the hill in my room.
Two were somehow still married.
The one who wasn’t me said ‘how can I divorce when the kids are so small!’Well, yeah.
The other two were already divorced.
The divorce rate of our room was 50%!
One divorced due to DV, as it is called.
The other’s husband left her for a young girl almost the same age as their daughters!
She, the one who was left by her hubby, said ‘I let him go before it got too nasty!’ Cool!
Life, life, life is here!
You can guess what interesting and possibly useful?! talks we had for hours during the night.
The stunning thing is those two divorcees are both already dating men ten years younger!
(ﾉﾟοﾟ)ﾉ
Hummmmmmmm…..
Maybe it’s not too late yet…..?
ゆばばよ
同級会はめっちゃ楽しかったわさ
自分が歓迎されてるって感じれたことって感激モンよね、
ま、なんせ数十年ぶりのご参加だもんね
ちゃうちゃう エエカッコしいはやめよ
そりゃぁ このあたいだから歓迎されたに決まってンジャン！
この友だちの輪の存在すらほとんど忘れかけてた！
大人の世界では 人はある程度までは自分を作ることができるけど
小学校からの友だちの中じゃ 何やっても無駄よね
ちょっと気取ってみたって すぐに見抜かれるに決まってるさ
教室のいすでおしっこもらしたのも知ってるし
先生にめちゃ叱られたのもバレバレだし
いっつも宿題忘れてたのも知られてるしさ…
けど大抵のひとが伴侶持ちで ま、別れたのもいるけど、子供も仕事もあってさ！
すごくない？
あたいたちみんな大人になったんだ！
ま、レッキとした人生の後半にはいるけどね
色んなドラマを仕込んできたわよ
すっごくカワイくてモテてた女の子がずーっと独りでいたんだけど
数年前の同級会で再会のバツイチ子連れの同級生と結局ゴールインしたとかさ
驚いたのはバツイチの多かったこと！
都会も田舎も関係ないんだぁ
あたいの田舎は温泉町で、その中のホテルで開かれたのよ
夜は昔の旧姓の名簿順に4人ずつ部屋が当てられたんだワ
花盛りをとうに過ぎた女が4人
うち二人は一応結婚していたし
そのあたいじゃないもひとりは
「そりゃぁこんなに子供が小さくて別れられるワケないじゃん」って。確かに。
他の二人はバツイチだった
この部屋の離婚率は５０％！
ひとりは今はやりのDVで
もひとりの旦那は娘達とほとんど同い年の若い女こさえて逃げちまったって！
その旦那に捨てられた彼女が言ってたさ
「ドロドロになる前に サッサと逃がしてやったワよ」って！カッコイイ
人生よねぇ
その夜が更けるまで
生のドラマとひょっとして役立ちそーな話に花が咲いたかは言うまでもないよね
けどなんてったって息を飲まされたのは
そのバツイチたちが二人とも既にカレがいることだった 10歳も年下の！(ﾉﾟοﾟ)ﾉ
…ム、………
…まだ 遅すぎないっつぅことか？