Childhood friends.

I actually moved around a lot too. I was always being bounced between my mom and dad. My mom once moved us to Texas to take care of her ailing father. Then we moved back home to California. A year or two later, she decided to move back to Texas for good. However, this only lasted 7 years (and during that time she had 2 houses built - so I changed schools for those as well). Then finally we moved to Virginia where we stayed 5 years… and then I moved back home to California once I was 18.

The most intimidating day was always the first day at school. Not knowing anyone, wondering who would be there and if they would like me. Also, the first week of lunch…everyone had tables and friends to sit next to but being alone was never easy. I finally lucked out with some great friends in Texas. And I look at my challenges as opportunities because now I'm great in a room full of strangers.

 

That happened to me a lot too. I was friends with everybody at school, but I realize now that I should have gotten to know them first time around.

 

I own the house my parents bought when I was born. It's a small town so I still have friends for as long as I can remember. And FB has brought some of us together that have moved away.

 

I moved around a lot and I dont have facebook.

 

of my core group of friends, i have known all for at least 7 years and one for 14.

unfortunately i don't any of them nearly as often as i'd like. i havent seen my best friend in 4 weeks, which might not seem that long to some but is ages for me. I'm fairly lonely these days, as it happens.

i also have one or two friends who i have known (apparently) since i was 4 or 5, but we arent particularly close. basically we just realised we attended schools together, but hadnt been friends in the intervening time

 

I am still really close to two of my childhood friends. One of them married someone in the Military so she has spent time away but she always returns and it is as if time has not gone by. We keep in touch where ever she is posted but it has been sometimes 3 years before she has been back in town.

 

Doubt anyone I knew growing up even knows I'm still alive... Some probably don't even know who I am.

 

I'm still friends with a good number of people from HS. My best friend from back then is still one of my best friends today. But I see lots of people I went to school with around town all the time.

We just had our 20 reunion this past summer and we were talking about how some classes have to have people fly in from all over the country. Most in our class of 41 students still live close by. So it wasn't so much "Hey...how has your life been?" as much as "Hey...you still owe me $20 from golf last weekend!"

 

only one..known her since i was 6

she is too busy lately though so we've drifted apart again

 

I moved around a bit but I can't really say it was a bad thing. I didn't have a hard time making friends except the one time I moved to a really huge school, luckily one of my best friends from 3 years earlier was at that school too so we started hanging out again.

The one time it was hard was the time I moved unexpectedly. I had a great group of friends at that time and didn't want to move.

I'm still in touch with about 3 friends from middle & high school. By association I'm somewhat in contact with a good 10 more people from this group, most of which I intentionally dropped from my social media account, a few of which I'd like to reconnect with and one really good friend that I always kept in touch with through phone that I lost touch with 6 years ago.

Out of everyone I would just like to get in touch with that one girl, that I met in middle school but no one seems to know where she is.

Of the ones I still communicate with, one was my best friend and although we have little in common with each other we are always available to talk and listen to each other. The other we have a lot in common but rarely speak and the last we actually have a lot in common and communicate pretty regularly although we weren't that close in school.

 

rarely. the oldest friends i really talk to still are from college. and even those people i don't talk to all that often.

that's pretty much how i am too.

 

Amen to that. My oldest friends are even more loyal than most of my siblings. No matter what is going on I can count on them. Strangely, all my ex-spouses and their children and lovers are incredibly loyal. I could probably ask any of them for anything and they'd do it, and I'm friends with most of them on Facebook.

 

Oops..that didn't come out right. I meant my ex-boyfriends and ex-spouses. In my case, I am as much male as female mentally, so treat males as pals even if a few friends pestered me into marrying them. Even after a divorce, any intelligence and humor that attracted me to them before is still there. If they're happy, I'm happy. And I'm still friends with former step-children and their children.

 

not really, I know a few people from growing up., but I dont hang out with them...

 

One childhood friend died. Two from high school died. I am in regular contact with nearly everyone I ever considered a friend. It works out to a lot of people. The last year has been difficult because I have taken on care giving for an elderly relative. The dimensia has to be the worst part. The way my friends have ralkiex around me in my struggles has movede deeply. I knew they were good people, but many of them have gone above and beyond. The amount of time from their own busy agendas, the distances travelled by some. I like to think I know how to be a good friend too, but honestly the friendship I have been shown feels like more than I deserve. My old friends are the best people on the planet. I have five friends I've known for 21-33 years. I have six friends (seven if my hubby counts) I met in the last decade. The rest I've known for 20 years, since freshman year of high school. Thanks to the ubiquity of smart phones we stay in touch.