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

[St. Widge]

I have a handful of friends from grade school that I keep in touch with 3 or 4 times a year. College is where I met my nucleus. I know I'm lucky in this regard but I have a group of 7 friends that all talk constantly via groupme. About every 2 years we take a trip (mancation) together sans wife and kids. I could, and do, pick up the phone at any time and call any of them.

Friendships are incredibly important and men tend to neglect theirs. Without going into PSA mode, I'd urge everyone, the guys especially though because we're so bad at it, to reconnect with friends. Men are more likely to carry the burden of stress and anxiety alone. Pick up the phone. 99% of the time, if you call someone out the blue, they’re going ecstatic to hear from you. You will have made their day and it's an easy guaranteed dopamine boost for you. Try it. Get those friendships back.

Just seeing this a long time after you posted it, but it's advice I wish I would have taken. I have a group of friends that I made from middle school through college that I still consider my closest friends but I almost never talk to them or even text with them. One lives out of town and we tend to all get together when he comes in town once a year or so, but the rest of us live in New Orleans but never call or contact each other and only see each other at family funerals.

It's no way to live but you know, family, jobs, etc.

 

[antipop]

Driftwood 4 Lyfe, yo. The mean streets of Kenner have broken many a man.

for real...dude was an honor roll student at Brother Martin and a really good tennis player....his parents broke him by being super overbearing...

 

[St. Widge]

for real...dude was an honor roll student at Brother Martin and a really good tennis player....his parents broke him by being super overbearing...

I know a few guys that appeared to have their sheet together who ended up burning out from the pressure of life.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Just seeing this a long time after you posted it, but it's advice I wish I would have taken. I have a group of friends that I made from middle school through college that I still consider my closest friends but I almost never talk to them or even text with them. One lives out of town and we tend to all get together when he comes in town once a year or so, but the rest of us live in New Orleans but never call or contact each other and only see each other at family funerals.

It's no way to live but you know, family, jobs, etc.

Yes we’ve all seen The Big Chill
Best to get a friend like antipop who can help provide compelling narrative and plot twists

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I know a few guys that appeared to have their sheet together who ended up burning out from the pressure of life.

I tell my HS students that high school performance is not fate
How well or poorly someone does in HS only indicates to about 60-70% how well someone will do in college and even less in life

 

[Madmarsha]

Are you guys about to have a deep discussion about life? Hold on. Let me grab a chair and some snacks.




Okay, go.

 

[Madmarsha]

Yes we’ve all seen The Big Chill
Best to get a friend like antipop who can help provide compelling narrative and plot twists

And so you can pee outside together. It's one giant toilet.

 

[Optimus Prime]