I’ve just been to a reunion I suppose you would call it. With people I haven’t seen for nearly twenty years.
What do people mean when they say you haven’t changed a bit?
we're all making our own sense of things
I’ve just been to a reunion I suppose you would call it. With people I haven’t seen for nearly twenty years.
What do people mean when they say you haven’t changed a bit?
‘You always looked slightly exhausted with bad dress sense and overdue for a haircut,’is what it would mean if they said it to me.
It means they’ve recognised you without having to first glance at your name tag, so something about you has obviously stuck in their memory, voice hair colour or style, stance, laugh. It’s nice to be remembered.
Well, there were only seven of us, river. So we didn’t really need name tags.
I think it means they really liked you and still do – or they couldn’t tolerate you then and can’t now…
Said of me, it would be the latter.
It means they’re wheeling out the reunion clichés because, y’know, what do you say to someone after 20 years?
I think, like what river said. But I’d be worried that it meant something like, ‘you’re still as daggy / immature as ever’ or (more positively) you haven’t aged much.
In my case, it was “your voice is the same”.
Which means my visage has shrivelled horribly beyond all recognition.
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In my case it might mean they recognised my voice. I am sure nothing else about me is the same after 20 years.
Yes, one of them did say ‘oh, I remember your laugh’.
Yikes! I have a reunion coming up later this year. I’m only a little bit worried by your post. Actually, the people who matter to me, I have kept in touch with. Including the dead one. You know, we’re the same age 3C…
Here’s hoping they think you’re aging well. It’d be about the hair for me.