Going to my High School Reunion this Weekend

expect almost everyone to look 25 years older than the last time you saw them. your welcome

I'd say they'll look worse than 25 years older. At 42 or 43, most will probably look closer to 50 or 55 - fat, bald and/or wrinkly. Unless you went to high school in Malibu, L.A., Miami or NYC in which case they'll all be Botoxed and lipo-ed within an inch of their lives.

The unexpected.

At my 20th reunion one of my former classmates was already a grandmother.

At my 25th reunion one woman came with her 25-year-old date.

Can't wait for the 30th.

All the top jocks will be fat and bald. All the pretty girls will look old and flabby and middle-aged. All the Plain Janes will have become competitive and sleek and much better-looking than your remember.

Sounds accurate for my class, or at least the picture they took for the local newspaper at the 20th reunion. That has discouraged me from attending my 25th next year. As far as the runners who I knew in high school, only a few are still competing and most are not running at all.

grainger wrote:

All the top jocks will be fat and bald. All the pretty girls will look old and flabby and middle-aged. All the Plain Janes will have become competitive and sleek and much better-looking than your remember.

Exactly what happened at my 22nd this year. Only a very few exceptions. Didn't take long for everyone to fall into the old clicks again either.

My general rule: if you liked high school then you will like your reunion. If you didn't like high school then you will not like your reunion.

Went to my 30th a couple years ago. It was OK while we were there, but for 2 weeks after I was depressed. I remember looking around and thinking "every one is so old" before I realized we were all the same age.

I regret missing my reunion that was held last week. I saw pictures and most of the cute girls in high school look like melted candles now - flabby and worn out.

I would have liked to have seen my old friends and catch up with them. I'll have to wait another 5 or 10 years now.

From what I heard a lot of the girls who went went felt that creepy guys who they barely remembered were picking up on them. More girls showed up than guys and the guys were more friendly to each other and to the girls(who didn't seem interested in talking to old school mates) than they were in high school.

The jocks all looked bad before they were even 30. At my 20th, quite a few of the women still looked good. At my 25th...not so much.

Wow, You people actually have reunions?

My class is too lazy. We haven't had one in 15 years. This year would have been the 25th.

My dad just had his 50th.

I went to my 30th. The girls looked way better than the guys. It was amazing how the old cliques quickly reestablished themselves. The cheerleaders hung out with the cheerleaders. But those of us who are still racing and running looked great -- I had a blast. It was actually kind of sad seeing some guys who were really good athletes in high school, looking so out of shape and FAT. Amazing what 20 years of sedentery life can do to a peron!

I just graduated 4 years ago, and the majority of our top athletes (those who did not go on to compete in college) are already fat and worn out. Many of the girls, too. Accelerated curve or what?

I have never been one to "go back"....I just go forward. Why would you want to go see people you haven't seen in 25 years? The people that you cared about, or were friends with, you would still be in contact with, right? So the only reason to go back is....what? They will all be older, fatter, etc. There may be someone there that has been a huge success who will come back to show off, but aside from that, it's going to be mighty depressing.

Even though I'm in high school it may be nice to see what some of my most hated peers may look like. Hopefully I become more successful then them so I can one day show them my power lol.

I stopped going a long while ago. I realized after visiting with a few people that I did not like them when I was in high school and that I like most of them even less.

Oddly, the folks I rarely hung out with were the people I got along better with at the last reunion.

Since I went to a private school, reunions are about getting money out of us. I have none to spare having chosen a life of poverty--at least it seems that way!

A running acquaintance went to his HS reunion recently and said he was able to predict what a lot of people were now doing before meeting them again. He was about 50% right--not bad considering his lack of contact with them over the years.

grainger wrote:

All the top jocks will be fat and bald. All the pretty girls will look old and flabby and middle-aged. All the Plain Janes will have become competitive and sleek and much better-looking than your remember.

I had to laugh when they talked about the Plain Janes. There were a few girls I went to HS with that were plain looking and skinny (no curves). However, 10-15 years later, they had had a kid or two, gained some curves in just the right places, and looked great. The girls who had these great curves in HS now are overweight and don't look all that good. Those skinny Plain Janes are now the hot moms everyone drools over. Everyone really likes them because they are humble from not getting too much attention back when they were teenagers. So they are now hot, very cool, and very down to earth. Gotta love that.

The 10 year reunion was all about how much money you were or weren't making, and who you married or didn't. Most of the guys had gotten fat, most of the girls hadn't.

20 year was all about how many kids you had or didn't. Alsmot everyone (guys and girls) had gotten fat.

Curious to see what 30 years will bring.

Had my 25th reunion a couple of weeks ago.

Some of the highlights:

The guys had actually aged fairly well. Several actually looked a lot better than in high school.

The girls, for the most part, had gone to hell in a handbasket. Several of them had gained over 100 pounds during the past 25 years. I'm not kidding as our class president, who weighed less than 100 pounds in high school, was over 200 pounds. Another woman admitted to being twice the woman she had been in high school. She was 120 in high school and now weighed 240 (according to her). Several other women were significantly heavier.

One guy worked in the county jail. He had seen another of our classmates 7 different times being brought in on various charges.

Another classmate was a nurse. She ended up working in the ER on a classmate who had been shot while trying to break into a building.

One sold all of her possesions and moved her family to Mexico to become missionaries.

Several didn't come stating that they hated all of us back then and their feelings hadn't changed.

We learned that, at the 20th reunion, a former boyfriend/girlfriend had left their dates (both unmarried) at the runion and had become "reunited" for the night.