Are you still keeping in touch with your old friends?

Malaysia
November 20, 2008 11:59pm CST
When I mean old friends, I mean those friends you know during primary or elementary school time, not university or working friends. I still keep in touch with some of my friends who I've known since 20 years ago. The gap, though, is much wider now since our social circles are very different and we lead pretty different lifestyles. But I do miss the good old times and I will make an effort to message them or call them up once in a while to see how they are going. After all, they are the few good and true friends who I am still willing to keep in touch with. To me, they are worth the efforts. What about you? Do you still keep in touch with such old friends?
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• United States
22 Nov 08
As you mentioned I also lead a very different lifestyle from my old friends. I still keep in touch with 3 or 4 of my friends from elementary school, and two or three from highschool. Unfortunately many of my friends changed and started getting involved in a differenly social circle than I did in higschool. Once college hit, so many people changed and got involved in partying heavily. I was not a partier, so I did not hang out with many of my former friends. The people I keep in touch with now are friends that I stopped talking to for a couple of years, and recently began talking to them again. I miss the old days when things were much easier and basically care free.
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@orevro (715)
• Philippines
22 Nov 08
i do try to keep in touch with them, but it's very difficult to do that when all our schedules doesn't match and as you said, we have different social circles and lifestyles.. Some of my friends went to abroad while others went to provinces.. I miss the times when we could just hang out and laugh our heads off for no apparent reason.. I guess that's the price of growing up.. :)
• Malaysia
23 Nov 08
Yeap. People come and go in our life, friends are no exception. :) If only we can stop time.
@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
21 Nov 08
Hello, I know that I have found some old High School friends from a site called myspace . There are a few from back in the day that I call and will chat with online in some way . I kinda was hurt by people i thought were my friends in school too , but you learn the hard way . I stayed friends with this one guy tho ;) He is really cool ! And well others there was my best friend who was off and on my friend . well she said she changed and we met later on in life and you know what she was the same . I dont speak with anyone from grade school really Seems I was cursed with my friends moving away ! I would say i met my closest friends later on in life and the ones from school that mattered kept in touch in some form . It is hard losing people or having them drift aprat.
• Malaysia
23 Nov 08
I know how it feels to have your closest friends drifting apart from you slowly. :)
• India
21 Nov 08
Yes. i also keeping in touch with many of my old schoolmates. It is more than 21 years i am keeping with some of my friends. There are also quite a few friends with whom i had lost contacted and later through some social networking sites found them and started the friendship again
• Malaysia
23 Nov 08
I still keep in touch with few friends I know since 7 years old. LOL. That s 19 years ago.
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
21 Nov 08
yeah.. i still have contact with some friends wayback in elementary and high school.. we talk through sms and social networking sites like friendster and facebook... actually, there are only few whom i can call"true" as they make a time to say "hi" and "hello", message me once in a while..
• Malaysia
23 Nov 08
It's good to keep in touch you know, because the next thing you know, they might be someone who can help you or vice versa. But normally I don't care much about those hi bye friends.
@animeniak (425)
• United States
21 Nov 08
I don't know their contact numbers and email addresses, so I really don't keep in touch with my old friends. I have always thought that the reason why they don't contact me so much anymore is because they just naturally forgot about me. But now hearing what life is really like in my native country for middle and high school students, I can see why they wouldn't keep in touch with me. Actually they can't, because they are too darn busy with their studies, while I'm sitting here in America, not studying as much, and just relaxing by myself or with my friends! lol By now, they should be in college, and I don't know how they are doing right now, maybe some of them are continuing with education just so they think they can get a better job in that country, which I think they'll be better off studying abroad. Who knows.. at least I hope they haven't forgotten about me after being overloaded with loads of studies, because I haven't. I think it'd be nice if we can still meet somehow, get in touch with each other, because I do miss the times I had with my old friends.
• Malaysia
23 Nov 08
Not too sure about meeting up with them, because people do change and it's been so many years since.
• India
21 Nov 08
i go to school with a few now, i'm still real close with the few friends that i was REALLY close with in high school, the other ones i still talk and chill with alot of them and we get together every now and then to do something, some close friends that go to school out of state we meet up with when they come visit, still text message and IM them alot of them tho if you IM ppl in high school its gonna feel a little the same after if u still do that lol
• Malaysia
22 Nov 08
Are you a working adult? :D If no, maybe things will change when you start working.
@redsponge (557)
• Malaysia
21 Nov 08
I only keep in touch with a few of them, those that I am very close with when we are still innocent kids. With the help of Friendster and Facebook, I am connected to more and more of my primary schoolmates. I remember there is once an old friend who moved to another division after finish his studies in primary school called me up after 15 years, I was so surprised and happy! It is fantastic to catching up with each other after a long time.
• Malaysia
22 Nov 08
I also do that too, Facebook. But I find it hard to find topics after so many years.
@subeesh (112)
• India
21 Nov 08
I am in well contact with my old friends at my schools, by school i mean high school and higher secondary school.Its shame to say i am not in well contact with my old nursery school friends.
• Malaysia
23 Nov 08
I've lost contact with almost all my nursery school friends.
@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
21 Nov 08
You know I really loved too. I missed them all. Although I am here in our place i cannot go anywhere I don't see them any one of them And I feel sad if I remember the days we are still united to each other. I want them to see again and I was hoping that before I turn my eyes close I wish we gonna have reunion. My friends in High school and college am I talking about. Where are you friends I miss you all! Permit me to say this into your discussion my friend. thank you.
• Malaysia
22 Nov 08
Facebook is a good place to search for them. :D If you still remember their name.
@maroseqf (3657)
• Philippines
21 Nov 08
I have many friends and I've kept some as my bestfriends. Well, I don't get to see them anymore especially now that I am just at home, taking care of my three-week old baby. One of my bestfriends who I've met in College has already migrated abroad and we don't get to keep in touch often. Good thing, there is yahoo messenger. Well, I keep in touch with most of my friends through the internet. Sometimes, I even get to talk to them online. Anyway, I miss hanging out with my close friends and spending time with them out for a movie or a meal. I hope that even if we are living far away from each other, we will still find some time to get together.
• Malaysia
22 Nov 08
Firstly, congrats on your newborn baby. :D Maybe it'll be a bit difficult to go out that often now since you need to take care of the baby.
@annierose (19008)
• Philippines
21 Nov 08
How I wish I can keep in touch to all of them but because some of them are so far to me, I no longer any news from them. However, some of my classmates before are living near in our place that is why I can still have communication with them. It feels so good that even if, it had been so many years since we graduated from elementary and high school, we can still see and talk with each other. In order for me to communicate with other classmates who is living quite far from me, I get their contact numbers and emails so I can send messages and from that we cannot forget each other.
• Malaysia
22 Nov 08
I normally find them in Facebook, though I must admit I could hardly remember some of their names.
@pitulica (56)
• Romania
21 Nov 08
friends - friends album
I meet a few monthes ago one of my colleagues from primary school and even if we waren`t good friends in school, we are preatty close now.With rest of them, i only meat at the store or somewhere in the street, we salute but nothing more. And i have also i friend from high school that we still keep in touch, but we were best friends in high school so, it`s hard to separate us.
• Malaysia
22 Nov 08
People do change you know. Some of them used to be very close with me, but not anymore.
@bluedove (17)
• Philippines
21 Nov 08
I still keep in touch with my old friend even though they have there own family.
@busyB4 (874)
• United States
21 Nov 08
I am still in touch with a few. The relationship is different since we have all gone our own ways and know so little about each other now. However, we do enjoy those special and fun memories that we share and then it feels for that time you are just as close again!
@Vivianh (331)
• China
22 Nov 08
Yes,I still have several and they r from my high school.We have rare chance to meet each other but just know we r good froends.
@Daffodil20 (1754)
• India
22 Nov 08
I had very few friends in school. But I am in touch with some of them. Two of them happened to come to my place as they had come to witness the university fest. Together we went to watch a movie too and had lunch.
@Margarit (3676)
• Philippines
21 Nov 08
Well i have no more contact of my old friends during primary school. I can only talk to them when we bump each other in unexpected place like grocery store or when we do some reunion party. They already had other priorities and other set of friends. My close friends now are my college friend, even we are parted because of work for mostly work abroad, we still keep in touch through the net and web cam. I think constant communication is the key to have a long lasting friendship.
• Malaysia
22 Nov 08
You sure you can recognize them in grocery store after so many years? :D
• Philippines
22 Nov 08
yes i still kept in touch with my old friends cause i am comfortable with them and i really know who they are...there strength and weaknesses and we don't leave each other in times of trouble...
@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
22 Nov 08
No but my current friends are all I really need. I hope to keep contact with them forever but if not I'm sure I'll find friends that are still pretty cool.
• India
22 Nov 08
yeah old friends are just like diamond which never get fade irrespective of the time...... they are needed always and present always in amoment when you call for help. therefore i always keep in their touch because they are true, honest and most important made for you.......