If your old friends from high school wanted to reconnect, would you be friends with them again?

[jackieistired]

Yes

No

[WhiteSteve]

Sure. But I haven’t run into anyone I knew in high school in like 20 years, and haven’t seen any of my friends since we went off to college, or I guess we got together one night the following summer. One of them is a Catholic priest now, which is CRAZY to think about. I mean, he and his family were heavy into the church thing, but I didn’t know he’d go full priest mode, haha.

All the other guys, they’re just in the wind. Probably made lifelong friends in college like I did. Wonder how that dynamic would work out, introducing a high school friend into their crew or mine. But I’m sure if I saw any of those guys we’d get to reminiscing and would be fast friends again, unless they totally switched up their personalities.

[Account]

But my old friends from middle school and high school are still my friends. If they stopped being my friends, it means they never truly were. The ones who remained and are a part of my life are the ones I consider friends.
We still message each other every day even if some are in other countries.
If you are talking about people with whom I have lost touch with, well, there are always reasons behind losing touch and that solely means that it was not friendship because it never endured the test of time and challenges.
That is all. It is very simple in my mind.
And no. I only wish to be friends with people who have been constant in my life. I have no room for others and if someone wants to be my friend, my door is open, however as time goes by it gets more difficult to click with people, therefore we might not end up being friends.

[TsundereMatrix]

Funny enough I was just out with one of my old high school friends and we talked about this. I met up with a few of my other high school friends lately and it was nice but there’s some who think they are better than everyone and I don’t want to be around them anymore.

[bobby_bush_eater]

I have no issues with almost any of my HS friends, we just mostly drifted apart in the classic way.

I joined the military, a lot of them went to different colleges all over the state and country, then we get busy and we don't have a reason to go out of our ways anymore for them. Now I'm 24 and it's like "wow I haven't seen him in 6 or 7 years".

I would absolutely see any of my old friends, there were 0 burnt bridges but admittedly I am not going out of my way to do so. They're far less important to me than they once were as am I to them.

[Finchie40]

Yes, if I always considered them friends, ’ then yes , a lot of of my old friends’ still keep in touch with each other , even though we no longer live close to each other anymore , we still find time to get together on occasion , and when we do finally get together i, t’s like we never drifted apart , we still have fun and laugh like we always did.

[Spuen]

If you liked them back then, yes.
At some point in your adult life you discover that it has become really hard to meet new people or trully connect with someone, so i wouldn't miss an opportunity like that unless there was a good reason (like i didn't really like them or they had hurted me somehow)

[mstbooblover]

That's a difficult question. Once out of the context of the school, relations change. At school one does not choose the students attending the same courses. Once away from school, and depending on real affinities, maybe, and putting the stress on "maybe", I would accept to try and be friends again. Anyway, I'm not eager for that.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

In practice, I find it difficult, seeing again a person twenty years after is like meeting a ghost. Meaning I have memories of them that do not match the actual life they lived. I'm stuck with a false picture. So are they.
It's complicated.

[Raphaëlle]

I put no but I don't know. We had a bigger friend group and then drifted apart. Many live in different parts of the country rn so it wouldn't be easy. I think we have changed a lot and don't know each other so it would be interesting to know 🤔

[ProbablyClueless]

Maybe... but probably not. We were friends for a while, but we went our separate ways. I'm a totally different person these days.

I don't have anything against those people, but they were part of a chapter of life that has long since closed.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Once a friend always a friend & old friends are still friends & although we drifted apart if any of my high school friends wanted to reconnect it would be ok with me.

[ohsheeT]

I had some really really good friends in high school and I still have some of them to this day

But as we get older we kind of go our separate ways and you don't see each other for a long time but yeah I would just to say hello

[UnusualWeirdo]

I'd test the waters and hang out a few times to see what they're like, I don't need dumb shit from my past in my current life.

[paledreams]

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[paledreams]

Trips down memory lane lol 🛣️

[UnusualWeirdo]

Yeah but memories are good as is, why revisit something and ruin that memory

[paledreams]

Let's use more artistry phrases like "because the fans demand" or because "audiences tastes have changed" or even "the audience is feeling nostalgic/dreamy eyes to revisit" lol 😆😆😆😆 if there's deities out there, they like shows like the rest for us TV dwellers cya lol man cya 📺

[luvstoned4him]

Depends... on what our relationship was like during school days. I won't be reconnecting with toxic friend groups who dont accept accountability or apologize and decide to hold onto that mindset

[Purpleronnie]

My main high school friend actually became my brother in law but there are no others that I wanted to stay or would have chosen to stay in touch with. That being said if our paths happened to cross now , many years on then who knows ?

[paledreams]

Same group of friends since "junior high" - to this day I'm 30 now and we still hang my fellow 29/30 and me

[paledreams]

🗓️ another grateful weekend with the fellas soon catching up 😃 after all isn't that what working weeks are, the bliss of week ends 🔚😁

[Anonymous]

It probably depends how they went about it. We leave the past in the past most of the time for a reason. I've re-connected with some people in my past. But it was usually done from the stand point of, "hey how you doing", "how's life treating you". A person that comes out of no where and wants to all suddenly know everything about you for the last 30 years. Is typically a red flag.

[whereismyjohnny]

I would only reconnect with two of my high school friends, I’m not interested in reconnecting with the others. I already hear from my guy friend among those two from time to time.

[avery58]

It's been a good minute... I'm sure we're completely different people by now.

I'd be willing to talk to them but I wouldn't try to force a connection or anything.

[Lliam]

It depends on who they are. There are a few people who I lost touch with and with whom I would definitely like to reconnect.

[EmmaMary]

I'm still very much in touch with several old school, college and university friends... A few more would most certainly be welcomed.

[PeachyPie93]

Quite a few of my old HS friends did get into drugs or meth over the years, but if they were clean sure..

[Cripplingkingship]

No thanks. If they were not interested before, why now. I had a old school friend wanting to reconnect, I said no, move on.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I like to think we would be, though I imagine our values may have changed since that time

[Christian_Cartier]

It depends. I've met old friends who were totally screwed up, and also friends that have done well to improve themselves. Only the latter are allowed back into my life.

[WhitneySnow]

Yes but I’m less than a year out of high school. I haven’t lost touch with most of them yet.

[Rashmixoxo]

Depends if on what terms we parted ways.. And how they are now.

[TacosRAwesome]

Not all of them. There are some people I'd be happy to reconnect with and others who I'd tell to get lost.

[MK1997]

@TacosRAwesome you are creepy

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

No, I had no friends and 90% of them bullied me.

[MoonFace2]

I’d have nothing in common with any of them.

[Sonora]

If I liked them then, why wouldn't I like them now, unless they have changed significantly.

[DrPepper12]

The women? Absolutely yes. The guys? Meh. It's complicated.

[Anonymous]

no. i say no because it will get nowhere and it will be awkward.

[Staximus]

I'm still friends with most of the people I hung out with on a regular basis in high school

[Staximus]

I just don't see them very often anymore

[StevenMcGarrett]

I am connected with a lot of them now. It's always nice to catch up on the glory days.

[jahaims]

I'm still friends with people from elementary school

[plundo]

Depends how he is. How could I say that in general?

[RedInnocent69]

Of course. I still have lots of friends from high school, but only a couple are really close

[Jmmmfi4]

IM KINDA IN THIS SITUATION RIGHT NOW & I REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT

THERE'S A LOT OF DRAMA WITH THAT WHOLE SITUATION

[Nikki1989]

No, I never look backwards.

[katiesmuff]

I could see no reason not to reconnect!

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I've got no problems with them.

[exitseven]

Maybe a couple of them.

[LiamJHayden]

I still am friends with them.

[Likes2drive]

Sure but I hardly had any in school

[woahhh152]

Depends on how the friendship ended

[strateguy632]

I wish. Yes.

[blooming_fate]

actual friends? then yeah definitely

[Alex-Snow]

Sure why not

[Iron_Man]

Yes sure

[ThomasMendoza1106]

yes I miss them