I had good times in high school, but prefer leaving it the time capsule. This would be my 15 year reunion if they actually had one. I know what you mean about the old friends.
When I left h.s. I prolly kept in touch with a good oh... 7-10. But then after I got back from college, they, and I noticed I had changed. I had little in common anymore with some of them, and they were still caught up in 1990. They honestly had just not changed at all. So I cut most of them loose.
I still have two good friends I've known since grade school I golf, play pool and hang out with from back in the days. I have anther who I rarely talk to, and when I do all he talks about is the past. Luckily I do not hear from him much, and when he does call, I generally dodge him. So I mainly get his rhymes, and riddles about the days of old.
While h.s. was a fun time, and I had no real grief, I wouldn't nessesarily NOT go back and live it again, but I definately like the journey's my life's taken since. I would not say those were the best years of my life, as I can think of a hundred other things, places I've been, and experiences since that I have enjoyed. College was anther hoot, and a lot of fun, but I don't think I'd wanna go back and live it again.
All that being said, I always crack a grimmace when I hear people talking about h.s. as the time of your life, and that quote from Varisty Blues were everything was about h.s. football (which I played) and being heros, and blah blah. Sad some people actually think like that.
