who are these old people?

I have been looking forward to, and dreading at the same time, my class reunion.  It has been many years since I have seen most of these people and things have changed quite dramatically since I saw them last.  I have attended every reunion of my high school graduation class and each reunion felt different.  At the tenth year reunion everyone was still trying to impress each other with their accomplishments such as further education, marriage and children.  At the twentieth reunion things were relaxing a bit more because life had settled us all down and things seem to be running smoothly.  We threw in a twenty fifth reunion just for good measure and then gathered again five years later for our thirtieth.  By then things were changing again.  We were losing classmates.  We said that we needed to gather more often so thus began the "mini" reunions that were spontaneously put together and held at a local watering hole...nothing fancy, nothing formal.  The fortieth reunion came and went.  And now it is time to celebrate fifty years of being a StLP High School alumnus.  The activities started tonight.  It was a casual get together at (you guessed it) the local watering hole.  The place was crowded.  It was noisy.  People were in a very good mood.  But, who were they?  They looked so.....old.  I jest, of course.  Some of my classmates looked exactly the same as I remembered them from years gone by.  Some of them I have kept in close contact with and have seen regularly.  Others I wasn't too sure about.  In all fairness my graduation class exceeded seven hundred students and I didn't get to know a lot of them at all.  But, wow!  I suppose I have aged, too.  ( OK, I have!!)  If I didn't look in a mirror, though, I wouldn't know.  That is the beauty of it all.  My eyes see outward.  I see everyone else but I can't see me.  Do I look just as old as those I am seeing before my eyes?  Surely not, although I am the same age as everyone else in that room.  We may be forever young at heart but who knew we looked so.....oldish??  (in a good way, of course!)   still laughing