Are you still friends with any of your childhood friends? (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

Are you still friends with people who've known since 1st grade or middle school?

My childhood is cut in half. We moved one month before I started high school

Because I was in an honors program I went to a different high school than the kids in my neighborhood

I wasn't really close to anyone I went to school with but was great friends with some of the kids in the neighborhood

We were thick as thieves through high school, college and post college years, then life happened. Careers, girlfriends/wives kids, moving etc.

We do still consider each other friends. But not like we used to be

We text on birthdays and holidays, we talk every now and then. We get together every now and then, and whenever we do, no matter how long it's been since we last saw each other, the years (decades -Jesus) just melt away and we get on same as we always did

If any of us ever need anything, money, help, advice, alibi, burying a body, we are there for each other

I do wish we did hang out more, but they have their lives and I have mine

So yes, we are 'still' friends, but not in the same way when we were in our young formative years and saw each other nearly every day

 

[SWJJ]

Some, the ones I have things in common with, or care to stay in touch with. People grow apart.

None of them are my "closest" friends.

As I am approaching 50, my closest friends are largely made up of people that came into my life as a teenager or young adult, with a handful being people I became acquainted with because our children are the same age.


The people in my early life were friends of convenience, we went to school or church together or they lived nearby and a few our parents were friends and we would find ourselves at the same place socially.

The people who are my closest friends nowadays are all people I chose to nurture relationships with, that were not necessarily convenient, especially as spouses and children came long.

If I ever considered you a friend, odds are I still do, but there is a HUGE spectrum between saying Hello and catch up if I bump into you make groceries, and who all gets invited to birthdays, BBQs, Boils, and game nights.

 

[efil4stnias]

my best friend is my buddy from 5th grade on. My closest friends ive known for 20 years or so and there is only 2-3 of those.

Rest are friends - we will meet up for dinner, drinks, watch a game type - but true "help me move/get me out a jam" friends- 2 or 3.

Best friend is 1. That has never waivered.


funny is my oldest now in college- her bestie is gal from kindergarten - so it must be genetic lolol

 

[antipop]

i have known my best friend guido since 2004

other than that, i have a real life bff that i have known since we were 7 years old...

 

[BigOdin504]

Met my best friend summer before 3rd grade. We were both in church reading comics, he was reading Hulk and I was reading Spider-Man.
Still talk to him every week.
I’m so happy to say that

 

[Big_L]

My best friend, met him in my sophomore year of high school. We weren't initially besties, that came with time. I'm still friends with my dude from 6th grade. Also friends with my crew from HS. I still kick it with dudes I met in the USAF. Also a few guys from my old department. I have tons of acquaintances, but real friends, maybe 10.

 

[donato]

Four of us chat/send memes several times per day on average in a WhatsApp group. One I went to school with K-12, another 5th-12, the last 6th-12. Three different cities / two countries these days. We're quickly approaching 50.

 

[gboudx]

None. We moved to DFW in 95 following graduation from LSU and didn’t stay in touch.

 

[Buickman]

I grew up in the same place (Ocean Springs) before I joined the Navy for 20 years, and have lived in Va for 20 years. There's only one person I keep in regular touch with.

 

[DaveXA]

Tbh, the only friend from my childhood I still keep in touch with is my brother. I have several old friends from childhood through college on FB. One girl I grew up with I lost touch for a lot of years, and reconnected and visited several times before I moved away again.

Right now my brother is the only one I talk with on occasion these days. But mainly that's because I live in the DMV region. Were I still in Lafayette, I'd probably still be in touch with several friends I knew from HS and college.

 

[El Caliente]

I think about this meme a lot.

I was blessed to grow up with a great group of siblings and kids who were tied together because we were Mormon growing up in New Orleans in the 80s-00s. There weren’t many of us that fit that description at the time, and our parents had us hang out together (wether we wanted to or not) so we could watch out for each other. We would go to parties together. Football games. School events. It was great.

Over time some guys rolled off, and we never heard from them, but today those of us who remain (about 10 of us) have a great group chat. We live in 4 different states, but it feels like we haven’t changed or moved apart.

 

[0rion]

My very best friend I've known for for 35 years but I met him in 1988. I don't keep up or even speak to anyone from high school and beyond

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

The only person I’m even vaguely aware of from grade school (and almost the same for high school) is Harry connick jr
My friend group was the kids I played playground ball with, not school chums
In HS I had about 5-6 tight friends and we all went vastly different directions for college et al
In undergrad is where I met my for life friends
Only one friend I’m still in touch with from NY

 

[0rion]

The only person I’m even vaguely aware of from grade school (and almost the same for high school) is Harry connick jr
My friend group was the kids I played playground ball with, not school chums
In HS I had about 5-6 tight friends and we all went vastly different directions for college et al
In undergrad is where I met my for life friends
Only one friend I’m still in touch with from NY

Me and my best friend have a joke we use frequently and it's that we know where the bodies are buried. We've been through a lot together in 35 years from young and dumb to married and dumb to divorced and dumb to married again and dumb to fathers and dumb and now getting close to being grandfather's and dumb.

 

[boutte]

My first friend and I grew up together and thought of each other as brothers. Our parents were best friends before we came along. He passed a few years ago.

I have another friend since 2nd grade that i still get together with from time to time. Still the best friend I ever had.