Just one person from childhood. A kid my age who lived across the street. We were best friends from the time I could walk.
We are still sorta friends at this point. Our lives have diverged quite a bit. I live hundreds of miles away now and only speak to him on the phone every year or so.
I'm still pretty good friends with one guy from high school. We were best buds back in the day. We speak on the phone fairly regularly. We've been talking a lot lately because we heard that another really good friend named Tom from back in the day is in the hospital with aggressive brain cancer. Tom was extremely healthy before this happened and I was in touch with him quite a bit. His prognosis is very bleak.
And I'm Facebook friends with my first girlfriend from when I was 16. She's really good people and a happy grandma now.
That's about it.
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My best friend since the second grade died last November. I am really shook.
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I wish. I had so many I really grew close with in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and various parts of the US. Yet I lost touch with all of them.
When I moved from Shizuoka to Yokohama and later Singapore, I remained pen pals with some of my best friends writing handwritten letters and also thinking I could return to my hometown one day not too far into the future.
It started to quickly grow apparent over the years that it was a pipe dream. After moving several times this way, I just ceased to keep in touch, even losing my friends' former addresses and letters in the process of moving and bouncing back and forth between staying with my mother in various parts of the US vs. father in various parts of Asia.
I started to think friends are just something we make for a year or three and say goodbye to forever after that. So I got decent at adapting to brand new places, even brand new cultures, and make friends among strangers. Yet I always expected to say goodbye to them forever at some point and never see them again.
The longest friends I've ever had were ones I made in my 20s in Tokyo. Many of those I've known now for over 15 years, some almost 20 years. Yet I'm no longer in touch with a single friend from before that, and sometimes wonder where they are now and how they're doing.
Actually, yes, I am really lucky that way. Although we obviously don't talk every day, I am still in touch with friends going all the way back to my junior high school days. In fact, I am still in touch with teachers I had in high school - and even have lunch with them when I am in my home town.
Also, I have no less than 5 godchildren - all, with one exception the sons or daughters of friends dating back to my high school years. (The one exception is my brother's eldest daughter.) To me, that is quite an honor.
Not sure why, but I have been lucky like that. My friends mean a lot to me and I am happy to have them in my life.
No , fuck em all
I keep some as facebook friends to ghost them again online
But one friend died back in 2021 I was ready to troll him just as I do with others on any given day then ghost them out for a good 2 or 3 years no responses no likes no bullshyt,
But the news did kinda break my heart we had a fall out and fixed our friendship over and over , I'm really hurt by and shook by his death
Damn since we were 11yrs young
yes
but this is why i dont care too much for having friends in school rn, because i know that when i get older ill lose touch with the majority of them. also college too (you usually find new friends there)
i do have one friend who is interested in many of the same things i am, and i feel like im the only one who really understands him (he's a bit of an introvert), he's a guy i hope to remain friends with for lifeI don't keep in touch with people from my young childhood anymore. But if it counts for your question I met my best friend when I was 12.
Not from my original neighborhood. I moved to the city in in now when I was 11 and am still friends with about 10 people from before 1990. I am still friends with a lot of people from about 7th to 12th grade.
Yes , I am still close to a few childhood friends, I still see them on occasion and we stay in touch as much as we can
Like 2, the rest are dead but these 2 have kinda seperated, I still keep up with them every once in a while.
Yes I am. I have probably 8 or 9 friends from my childhood that I still talk to and hang out with. They are male and female friends
Almost all of them, so whenever I talk about them I just say me and my homies 🤣
I value my old friends but I do not talk to most of them. I cannot guarantee it’s mutual but it’s hard to forget somebody who was in your life every week for over ten years.
Yes. 4 people.
One of them i started a romantic relationship with this weekend
No I’m not! Just keep in touch with my friends from high school
We have a WhatsApp group of less than 10 very close friends who have known each other from school when we were 7 to 10 yra old. We still try to meet up if we meet each other's country.
Yes I still have a handful of friends from school days.
Only one from early childhood, but I met my main group of friends in high school
yeah, know her since I was 7, she's 2 years older then me.
Just one person. I've known him since i was 11.
Yes I still see a few of my childhood friends.
nah i text one sometimes but that's kinda just it
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