friends but then what about the future?

take every good friend you have, like the most closest friend you have or like the most (thats terrible to say about the one you like the best but just go with it) do you think you guys will be friends forever? what about college or when you start your career, would they still mean everything to you then?

 

No.

I have gone through many amazing friends throughout my life. I'm still in contact with them, but when people move and are unable to see each other... then they fade away.

I would probably still be great friends with them if I could at least see them occasionally.

 

i have friends from all different eras, I still usually consider them friends and when i see them its nice, but i am not so great in keeping up contact across the country etc

thats a great test actually, if you go years without seeing them and things have not changed, it points to the shit being real. Sometimes I think friendship can be purely situational

also I do not generally rest on my past, i like to keep things fresh

plus I fear some of them have turned into douchebags

 

Them damn douchebags.

I'm with you Gary... some friendships are awfully situational... and yes, distance and time is a great test.

I saw a friend from Honduras a couple of months back after not seeing him for almost 2 years... and it was like absolutely nothing has changed, we started joking and talking right away, and ended the day by playing guitar on a mountain.

Others... hmm... some people change too drastically. It doesn't make them bad people, it just makes them people to whom I can no longer relate.

 

my close college friends - we'll be friends for life. that like at tops 10 people from this college

i have other friends who i want to stay friends with forever, a couple i haven't met either

 

It always makes me sad when friendships that you have had forever change. I have two absolute best friends in the world and while one of them I'm as close to as ever (we've been friends since the first day of school), the other friend and I have begun to slowly drift apart over the past year. I used to have another incredibly close friend but then she dated my ex behind my back and it's only in the past 6 months we have begun to talk again after 2 years of not speaking at all. Those three are people with whom losing their friendship can be incredibly hurtfull. With most of my other friends however, they are always changing. I know some of them I won't be as close to in the future, but for now they are my friends and I love them.

 

well in that case im wish i could freeze time but that aint happening. i guess ya just gotta keep meeting people and making friends. but does it have to be a process like that?

 

some friends can be for life, i have a friend from kindergarten still
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I have maybe 3 friends from high school, which was a long time ago

its just some people turn into douchebags and you don't want to be friends with them anymore.

It depends on the type of person you are, I feel I can make friends or good acquaintances relatively easily, I know others are more guarded.

it also depends on where you are I think, for instance many people did not like me when i lived in Seattle

 

In Real Life...

No...

 

i've seen alot of my friends already in a couple of months move on and we've drifted apart..i've changed alot but some people will always see you as you were to them..and sometimes that's not that pleasent...i keep making new friends..as hard as it is for me to move on it's something that i have to do, i won't be left behind..i will make the best of the situation i'm given...also for me it helps to move around from groups because it allows the people around me time to breathe and not get so over whemled by the essence that is me
i'm a crazy bitch, and most people can't stand to be around me all the time

 

Jesus...What a fucking depressing thread. I don't even want to fucking think about it...

 

That's actually a good point.

I've had "online friends" for bloody years... longer than any other true friendship.

 

We can start talking about Pedos again, if you'd prefer that

 

As long as they'll stay my friend all my life, I don't care.

 

im not trying to be sad or depressing. i just couldnt imagine changing all that much for someone to drift off...

 

I'm friends with everyone I was close friends with in high school except one person who just turned into a freaking weirdo after she graduated high school. We hang out or talk to each other at least a couple times a week. I went a year without talking to my friends because I was in a funk and blew everyone off. i think we will all be lose friends until we die. I stay close friends with pretty much everyone in my life, ex boyfriends, old co-workers classmates...you can never have too many friends

 

all my friends mean the world to me becuase of how much they helped me though all my family issues (and theres a lotta them) and thats why i could never imagine drifting from any of them. they hjave just done so much, and id help them out in a heart beat and i do. but why would people drift off? could they get bored maybe?

 

veroness, it's not always you changing, it's them too... and, I'm 22 now, I can't begin to explain how much I've changed since I was 17. But it's ok, because it's a part of life, and sad as it may be, sometimes friends grow apart. But if you keep doing what you like, new and great friends will come along

 

Exactly...

As Long as I have my Onlie Friends...I'm Alright...

And my Online Friendships Have Lasted many Years...

 

so your saying its possible to find better friends or new friends that would mean the same as my friends mean to me now?