I agree-ran into a HS friens a while back (after 30 years). This guy had been an athlete (lettered in football and swimming).
He was a mess-must have been close to 300 pounds-how do people let themselves go like that?
At my 30th reunion I saw a lot of different outcomes.
Some of the females really still had it going on and looked a lot like they did in school, just…older. But there were also a lot of ‘moms’, unshapely figures, shortish non-descript hair, dressed in that Sears assistant office manager outfit.
The guys, for the most part (being guys) looked like they really didn’t even try to take care of themselves. Definitely portly and losing the hairline. But there were a few who you could tell kept up with the workouts and groomed themselves (without moving into the metro-sexual category).
We didn’t really have any of those stereotypical drunken ex-jock or ex-cheerleader disaster stories, however, or nerd-to-millionaires either.
There was a kid two years behind me at school, and the last time I saw him then was, as a senior attending one of our end-of-year parties… he was hanging on to the tree outside the host’s house, puking his guts out after hitting th keg a bit too heard. This was not an unusual pose for him.
Today he’s a minor elected official in my little city, doing just fine. I remember getting his “Vote For Me” flier in my front door and thinking, “Wow… if only the voters knew!”
I was at my 40th reunion last year. Some people hadn’t change one bit over the years and some were totally impossible to recognise, and this goes for both sexes. The only reason I did recognise one bloke, that I even had had some contacts with after school, is that he’s a news-reader at the local TV station.