Do you keep on touch with your childhood friends?

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

Ive had the same group of friends since I was 5 years old up til today. It's called loyalty.

That's not what Loyalty means

 

[Revolver]

No, I got rich and made new friends

 

[OriginalSpeedy]

People that you were friends with when you were younger than 10 years old.


I try to. It sucks that they're spread out all over the world and it's hard to plan a get together. I miss these guys. Facebook helps keep on touch, though.

I tried but he changed. He talks so ghetto/hip-hop that when I friend'd him on FB I never could understand a single post from him. I decided to not meet up and catch up for I figure I wouldn't understand what he was saying to begin with.

 

[Count Zero]

Ive had the same group of friends since I was 5 years old up til today. It's called loyalty.

And what about the friends you had when you were 4 ? Chopped liver ?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Yes. I live on the other side of the country but I always hang out with them when I go home (about twice a year), take "boys trips", and somebody new always comes out to visit. Hanging with a HS buddy tonight that I've seen once in 12 years, but it will be blast.

 

[Count Zero]

I only keep in contact with a [now] dentist who I knew since I was a kid. She sees my photos of traveling and always asks me where i'm going to be probably to eventually meet up. She just recently applied for a position in NYC but I'm in Los Angeles right now. I had one of my best friends show her around though. I try to host my childhood friends whenever they are in/around the area I live in. Most people I knew during my childhood live very simple lives which I just don't relate to anymore.

So what kind of life do you relate to now ?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I keep in touch with some, others unfortunately i've lost contact with. One of my childhood friends is moving to the same city i live in next year so i am pretty excited about it

Wow! That is very cool. What are the odds?

 

[MaureenCretis]

Hell yes. The friends I made at school are still among my closest friends today. My bud who was my next door neighbour when we were 7 is coming over tonight, and I'm seeing some friends I made at school when I was 11 next week for our annual drunken stagger round London.

Facebook does help keep you in touch, for sure. Harder to see people frequently when life takes you all around the world, but they'll always be your friends.

Guess it's a little easier for me because where I grew up, just west of London, is the best place in the UK to live, at least in terms of availability of well-paid work. So most of us didn't move more than 30 miles from our home town, because there's really no need to. Maybe its harder if you all wanted to move away, but we were lucky enough to grow up somewhere nice, so its not like we had to escape something to move on in life.

I like that continuity, and although I've made friends elsewhere - work, university, for example - my old friends are still my friends. It's great to have people to keep in touch with that knew you growing up, because you have memories to share as well as being able to make new memories with them.

 

[thebluerider]

no one from before high school

 

[thetruth2709]

when you are too young you think your friends are the most important thing in your life and they will be with you forever. When you pass 37 - 38 you realize friends are not really AS important as you once thought, people who you call "friends" sometimes are circumstancial and for you as well as for them FAMILY becomes the most important thing

Im not saying you cant have life long friends, if you do great congratulations. I have 2 friends I have known for over 25 years who I see or talk to relatively often, but a LOT of friends have come and go through the years I now realize that frienship is really impotant in your life and its something you should take care of, but when you are young you think friends will be "forever" ehh nahhh man, you have no idea what life will throw at you, and maybe from your 5 "best friends" you will only keep 1
Good luck!

 

[aldeniro78]

I just recently found one of my best friends from when I was young on Facebook but we haven't talked much. My two other good friends from that time are into hardcore drugs now, so I stay away from them.

 

[chardog]

nope, times go by and friends move to different interests. Had a family early, lost of bunch of friends and made some new ones. The only people constant are family and wife.

 

[Leklok]

And what about the friends you had when you were 4 ? Chopped liver ?

Before age 5 I just hung out with my brother and cousins. Needless to say we still keep in touch.

 

[Leklok]

That's not what Loyalty means

Except it is. You must be a friend hopper.

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

Except it is. You must be a friend hopper.

means you haven't moved on with yr life

 

[HomeRun916]

Sadly no, not one.

 

[Leklok]

means you haven't moved on with yr life

Except I did, yet I still make time for my OG's. Real men are loyal.

 

[BearGrounds]

My two closest roll dogs, yea. Good friends are hard to come by.

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

Except I did, yet I still make time for my OG's. Real men are loyal.

I pity you

 

[Leklok]

I pity you

Your mum pities you.