I just attended my 25th this summer, and let me tell you a truth of the universe......25 years is the great equalizer. The guys who were the biggest studs, with the best hair & coolest attitudes, turn into the balding guys with the pot bellies!! :shocked:
Seriously, you do see some cliq-ish attitudes, but that was mostly from the people that never left the home town, and hang out now with the same people (who also never left) they hung out with in HS. It's basically their way of dealing with their insecurity.
For the most part, 25 was pretty fun. Guys that were so cool in HS are now just as fat as I am, and have less hair, so I felt pretty good!! LOL Like I said, 25 years is a great equalizer, and after that long, all the old feeling of how you didn't like someone pretty much disappear, and you drink some beers, laugh about each other's senior portraits, and enjoy seeing each other again. Unfortunately, I also discovered that we had lost a handful of people from the class, but that's to be expected (I left my home town 25 years ago, and have never been back there to live, just to occasionally visit family, so didn't really know what to expect).
The amazing part was that an old girlfriend looked just about the same as she did back then, and probably gained no more than 5 pounds in that time. She's married now, with a couple kids in their teens, but it was fun seeing her again (after the initial discomfort, we were talking and laughing like we used to back in HS). 🙂
So if 10 years doesn't thrill you, go back for 20 or 25. Unfortunately, due to some bad last minute planning, we didn't have nearly as many people show up as we had hoped for, so decided to do "25, part 2" next year, with much better planning. I'm looking forward to it already! 😀