Did you cut off all your high school friends right after you graduated or keep in touch with all of them?

[NEW_YUKI]

[Zefram]

I still talk to a few here and there. Mostly my nerdy circle of friends that I had when I was in high school but a lot of them moved off to places like Ottawa or Toronto (and one left to Wales) while I stayed in my hometown after travelling and getting my wanderlust out a bitearly.
The rest of them? No, not really. I had a date a while back with a girl I went to school with for YEARS since I was still just a little boy and always had a crush on (but was too much of a shy, nerdy loser to ever do anything with) but that quickly went nowhere fast, especially since I fucked up on the first date (just said something I shouldn't have, not important).

Ironically, my best friend used is a guy I knew throughout all of my school years, William, met him in Grade 2. Why is it ironic? because from Grade 4-Grade 11, he was my childhood and teenage bully with little on-off periods in between. We met back up after high school when I started working at a restaurant that he was at while I was in Univerisity and we put aside everything and started hitting it off and we've been best friends since, we go drinking and clubbing often now and then together and regularly destroy a few pound of mild or hot wings from our fav bar. Not to mention we discuss pussy and getting laid together like most guys (which he's ecstatic about, because he's a womanizer whereas he had to wait years for me to finally get laid by my girlfriend after waiting in order for me to actually be able to join in the fun convos).
And then every now and then we can look back and joke like "hey, Zef, remember that time I punched you in the stomach back in Grade 5?" "Yeah, I do" "Fuck I was an asshole" "Yup. Still are".
Seriously, dude's like a brother now. Especially since mine lives like a day away further up North in Thompson in the middle of fuckin' nowhere, Manitoba.
So to answer your question? Of all my high school/school friends period?
I still regularly talk to like 1. Maybe 2. The rest are all coworkers who I've only met in the last 5 years or so. And then every now and then I'll run into a former classmate on the street or something and have a nice chat or so.
I ran into a guy I went to middle school with a few months back on my way to my office and it was sad because he was clearly on drugs.
I also had another guy I went to middle school with come into my office to apply for a loan but unfortunately I wasn't able to approve him.
Probably hates me now.
And I interviewed two people I went to school with who...

[Zefram]

... applied for a job at my company a couple weeks back. One of them was also one of my former bullies.
I didn't hire him.
Though not because he bullied me as a kid, clearly I can forgive. His resume just... wasn't as impressive as the girl I hired and she was also a stellar interviewee.
And I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure that girl I had a crush on and had a date with? Yeah, the internship program that I applied my company for in her University? I'm pretty sure I saw her name in the applications for a position at my company. So this is gonna be interesting. I was trying to remember if I told her the name of my company when we had our date but evidently I guess I neglected to mention it.
So my week is probably going to be pretty entertaining.

[Zefram]

The publishing company I started not the financing company I work part-time for. Just to clarify. I'm not high-up enough in the company I work for to interview people.

[POWERUNLIMITEDPOWER]

Keep in touch ofc

[redpanda_]

Out of a friend group of 7 (well, 6 friends and me) I stay in constant contact and go on holiday as and days out with 2, we've known each other for 20 years; there's one I'd still say is my friend but she lives in a different city, so I don't see her as often but we do meet to catch up; another one is more like an acquaintance now, but when we see each other we talk, spoke to him the other day when we hadn't seen each other in about 4 years (we left school 5 years ago) but there was no rush to say we'll catch up over coffee or whatever; and the last 2, if I'm honest, have showed their true colours and I don't want anything to do with them.. I got groped and when I got an excuse to run, I took it, yet one of them said I was cheating (even though I didn't consent to anything) and I was a coward for running. The other, I bought a present for her baby boy and unfortunately cause he didn't come on his due date, I had to reorder what I'd got for him and it took longer to come. So I took it to her mums when it came (she was out) - I didn't get a thank you, and she tried to guilt trip me many times because she was pregnant..

But none of that matters. Thanks to my ex, I have made better friends and thanks to work, I've made friends there too - I'm in Germany right now with a friend from work!

[Anonymous]

I keep in touch with many of them. Some moved away, so we mostly communicate via social media or whenever one of us is visiting the other. I don’t see any point in purposefully burning bridges with people unless if they were toxic, which was the case with one of my former close friends. After high school we would still catch up, but our interests drifted and I found that her personality morphed into something I did not like to be around—she was a sweet girl in HS but became very bitchy and entitled after we graduated. She lost all of my respect after admitting that she stole money and a credit card from her mother (who is battling MS) to book a flight across the country to see her favorite band perform because the mother wouldn’t give her the money when she asked and she didn’t have a job to pay for it herself. She then complained that her sick mother looked like a whale and was unpleasant to be around. There was absolutely no empathy or remorse. 🙄

[jennifer_bloom]

I didn't like most of my high school friends cause we did not share the same values or beliefs on things - we just hung out cause we were rejected by the popular people. I had three connections I continued to call and invite over and chat with online or visit their homes during occasions. Then one cut me out of their life, another got busy but still sends very short messages a few times a month and another reads my facebook profile every single week but is too wealthy for me to afford socializing with her. I once told her I was broke and she stopped inviting me to hang out with her - she's nice - but feels guilty going to restaurants with somebody who can't afford to buy food. No matter how poor I am - I never ask for charity.

[boulshyte]

lol GaG whitewashed ur pic

[NEW_YUKI]

yeah

[boulshyte]

i hate that they did that tbh :/

[koalakola]

I didn't cut them away but eventually it happened.

I think it's a gradual process. You loose touch and then feel awkward to initate contact again. So you end up remembering them but feel like it's better to keep it that way.

There might be few friends who you remain touch with. Maybe more than couple of texts over months, to exchange random information and planning to meet, which never really happens.

I think it's absolutely normal. You aren't going to remain friends with all of them. Your school used to be something common and that's why you became friends. You have to put an effort to remain friend with someone and its not easy.

Friendship has to carried by both of the individuals. It will be hard for you to stay connected so it will be for them. They might loose themselves in work and you might become insecure. There are many possibilities.

Try to not take friendship too hard. I don't. You should remember your paths have gone different ways so it will be hard, but will happen only if both of them want.

[nightdrot]

Not only have I stayed in touch with high school friends, I am still in touch with high school teachers, and college friends as well. This notwithstanding the fact that I live in a different state from both where I went to high school and where I went to college.

They are good people from whom I learned a lot and had good times with. It is not like we speak every day, but they are friends, we chat periodically and if I happen to be home for the holidays or something I will usually take a day or two and have lunch or a dinner with them.

Not only that, but I thanks to high school and college friends, I have 6 godchildren. One is my brother's daughter. All the rest are the children of friends from high school, college or social friends.

Whatever else, I must be doing something right - and the more friends you have and keep, the richer your life will be.

[Anonymous]

My high school friends and I all went to the same college, and I lived in the dorms with a few of them, and we purposefully shared the same freshman/sophomore classes. After we all graduated, half of us were still and still are really good friends. I've had the same best friend from high school for 20+ years now. She's definitely more like a sister to me and my best guy friend, I've known even longer then that because we met in middle school.

[MermaidMotel]

I cut them all off. I don't know... I've reached a new stage in my life and wish to start off fresh. I feel as though my old high school friends were holding me back with there way of thinking. I felt as though we were all on a different page and didn't really do much to add each to each other's lives. I also hate to compare myself to others which can happen with people you went to school with and grew up with.

[Kiwedin]

I mostly just stayed in touch with my best friends, but I realized that I only socialized with my other friends out of convenience and popularity if I'm being honest. After high school, I just realized I didn't have the energy for pointless friendships anymore. Now, I have a really small circle, my only friends are my absolute best friends, and I like it better that way.

[Prettygurl12]

I kind of did. I literally ran out of there as fast as I could lol even though I had a good high school experience. I graduated on a Friday and I started college on that next Monday. I kept in contact, or they kept in contact with me, I should say lol

[ZanyInternetName]

I never had any, so there's that.

Well, I guess I had two by the end of school. With those I keep in touch. Why wouldn't I?

Going by the much more loose definition of "friend" that's used in common English I cut off contact instantly. Why wouldn't I?

[azzntittiz]

I cut then off, reuniting a little after caused so much problems and then I distanced myself again. I got bullied in school almost everyday because the girls were jealous. The men who eventually started relentlessly hitting on me all witnessed my crucifixion and did nothing if anything joined in. These people were never my friends.

[abc3643]

We didn't have the Internet, let alone social media, when I graduated. You still had some friends that you may have hung out with during the summer and during breaks from college if you went away to college, but, over time, you drift apart. For someone my age, that is what makes Facebook enjoyable - I have found friends from high school or even early whom I have not seen nor spoken to in decades - some almost 50 years.

[TrixiePooch]

You keep in touch for a few years but eventually you just drift apart. I still saw some on Facebook when I had it but don't use it anymore. People get married and have a new group of friends then and single friends don't usually fit in then because they like to hang as couples and have kids.

[CandacePerry]

I only know two friends that I have. My other ex-bf in high school to try and force me to have sex but I didn't want to and I said no. I went up to him and broke up with him. Now my current boyfriend now is a different guy that we met in high but then we starting meeting on facebook.

[Alice2398]

I only really had two close friends in high school and yes I've completely cut off one of them because I couldn't bare to see her destroy her life constantly over and over again. My other friend and I are besties but she lives very far away now in the country side with her boyfriend so I only see her once, twice a year

[happyhippo]

I thought I won't ever stop contact with them, but turns out a depression and working full time when they were taking a gap year or going to university only we're ways to ruin that image. I very rarely talk with some of them now, but we're still in good relations. Honestly most of the fault for that our friendship didn't continue is mine.

[InTimoreDei]

Wow, a lot of young and sour people (especially the females) in the comments. I expected that from today's generation. In my dad's generation, almost all of his highschool friends stayed in contact.

I'm in contact with a lot of them. Two of them, who were my best friend's, passed away from health conditions though unfortunately.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I had 1 high school friend and we never stayed in contact
I've saw a few people i graduated with but it was nothing big
It was a hello and how you doing but nothing big they just never
hung out with me and i never hung out with people cause i was
a bully victim and i had to watch out for the bullies in school.

[winniethepoah]

Yeah I'm actually still very close to a few of them still. Most you lose contact with but the greatest friends are the ones where you can go a long period of time without talking because life gets busy and when you start talking again it's as of no time has passed at all!

[zagor]

I would like all those girls in that pic to take off their clothes and jump on me.

But getting to your question, no, unless I run into them around town while visiting my parents, or at a reunion, I have no contact with anyone I knew in HS. But then I didn't really have any close friends then.

[ElissaDido]

I graduated 5 years ago and i'm still friends with most of my high school friends although we live in different continents.
We call each other in special occasions and go out together when we happen to be in the same city.

[Anonymous]

my best friend from high school and i are still best friends to this day. i miss her a lot since she lives half way across the country now, but that doesn’t stop us from staying best friends. i snapchat a couple of my close friends from high school and keep in touch with some people i’ve grown up with my whole life but other than that i don’t really talk to my old high school friends. i might see them once here and there but that’s about it!

[IsmailHaniya]

Actually not all of them but I cut off some rare ones not because I want to but It's because I tired being in touch with them only by my side, but most of them are like my family and we always keep in touch with each other coz that is what family is supposed to do.