do yu still keep touch with your childhood friends?

China
November 20, 2009 1:17pm CST
yesterday my mother told me that she received a wedding invitation card from one of childhood friends.her mother and mine are friends and see each other a lot.but I 've leave my hometown for several years and I even hadn't seen her for a couple of years before that. I felt a little wierd at her wedding news.because she remains the little girl in my mind and never thought things would change...perhaps deep down my heart I prefer my childhood gathering dust than being touched.it just feels like a due is going to drop from the piece of grass and the daybreak is over... well,do you still keep touch with your childhood friends?
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@jnmbrown (19)
• United States
20 Nov 09
As a child I moved around a lot so I don't have that many childhood friends. But I do have several that I have known since 5th grade that I do keep tabs on through myspace and facebook. Sometimes with weddings, brides just invite everybody they know as a courtesy and not so much because they want to rekindle a friendship or even expect you to come. 20% of those invited to a wedding don't even RSVP. 10% of those who RSVP won't show up.
• China
22 Nov 09
hi,jnmbrown. I find what you said is the case.sometimes a friendship has gone through its season and it is impossible to regain it. thank you for your response. have a nice day.
@sanell (2112)
• United States
20 Nov 09
I still keep in touch with just a few of my childhood friends, only because we are still living in the same neighborhoods and have been through so much together we just know what a true friend is and it is great. I miss some of my other friends a lot only because we are all so busy and have a hard time doing what we can but it is great to keep in touch. I have a ton of friends, old and new but truly my childhood friends are my closest friends ever!
• China
22 Nov 09
hi,sanell! thank you for your response. I know it is very difficult to keep touch with all the friends,especially who live far away.and keeping them in a special field in one's mind is a way to miss them. have a nice day!
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
27 Feb 11
Well until a couple of months ago, there were some childhood friends I thought about from time to time, but never really thought I would ever get back in contact with any of them, even though quite a few, I really wanted too. So for me, what I chose to do was via Facebook do a search for some of them, and found a couple and have a few more remember me and invite me to be their friends via there again. We are now all in our mid to late 40s so a lot has changed, but it has been worth it for sure.
• Philippines
23 Jun 11
It's sad that I am not in touch with my childhood friends anymore. I don't know what happened over the years. I guess we just grow up and we don't need each other anymore. But if I have a choice, I would still want to be in touch with them.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
4 Dec 09
Hi CathyLee, Right now there is no contact with my childhood friends. But on visit to my native place I have seen some of them and sometimes with their parents and knowing about them. I too received their wedding invitation even if I am staying away from them. But all of them are coming in mind by remembering about my childhood days and it really gives some happiness. All of them are married and well settled and busy with their own family now. I too do the same.
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
18 Mar 10
I would love to keep in touch with them. But I hardly find any nowadays. I do have some friends during childhood that I occasionally meet along the way but they were not the ones that are close to me. I am also very busy with my work and do not even have the time to meet most of my recent friends.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
21 Nov 09
Yes, I have many childhood friends that i keep in touch with. We don't always speak often but when we do talk we have a blast.
• China
21 Nov 09
Yes, but only a few who are still reading in the college. Because others have not been reading for many years, we don't have too much in common.
@seekers (393)
21 Nov 09
Yes I still have communication with my childhood friends, the closest one. But most of them are out of the country already but of course, with the wonders of technology its easy to communicate with them already.
• Boston, Massachusetts
21 Nov 09
Hi Cathylee, Since we have our own family, career and lives we seldom see and talk to each other. If there's a chance to get their contact number there's a big chance to text and even call them occasionally. Every time i visit our province i make sure that i ask my brother to inform my childhood friends whose around that i am here and schedule a visit. Most of the time they go to my place/house then i too visit theirs. I miss those days...those childhood days--so carefree.
@marctiu (829)
• Philippines
21 Nov 09
Hi Cathylee. Honestly. It is through face book I have met many of my high school friends. We use facebook or friendster in keeping touch with them. I can hardly find time and access to them since many of them are very busy and they have no time to have fun with them anymore. Well, Time flies and the journey of our life just keep on going. Life must go on.
@wgnashze (27)
21 Nov 09
I go online if possible, or save it on my to-do list for thorough searching over the net. It's going to be a bit hard at first, with lack of stuff to talk about and all, I usually start with asking about the peeps we both could have known back then. It really pays to keep communication lines open nowadays.
@kingzle (19)
• India
21 Nov 09
yes i still keep touch with my childhood friends...
• United States
21 Nov 09
I wish! Slowly after high school me and my childhood best friend lost touch and I haven't spoken with them for a couple of years now. I guess people just drift apart, however I do wish I had kept in touch with them. Maybe I will run into them one day and we can rekindle our friendship :]
@domenyag (1273)
• Philippines
21 Nov 09
its very hard now to keep in touch with childhood friends, tho there are some only fdw of them... but most of them are working abroad, some of them have thier own families.. and most of us are busy in our own familiies... so really tough keeping in touch with my childhood friends...
• China
21 Nov 09
childhood friends - Do you still keep in touch with your childhood friends?
I had a couple of childhood friends but I do not keep in touch with them any more. Though we grew up together and entered the same primary school and spent 6 years together as intimate friends, we all chose different ways after that. Some dropped school and began to work and some continued studying. I'm one of the latter. After I finished high school, I went to college to receive higher education, and now I'm working. As to those childhood friends, I haven't met them for a couple of years. I don't know what they are doing and how they are living. But there is one thing I'm certain, and that is we no longer have as much in common as we did in childhood. We have different views toward life and many other things. We may seem strange to each other when talking. They themselves have probably made a lot of new friends and started a new life.
@calai618 (1773)
• Philippines
21 Nov 09
This is one of those questions that make me sad. I lived in 4 different places all throughout my childhood so it was really hard for me to find friends. Especially on the last 3 places we've moved to, I hardly had any friends because I thought it was pointless since we'd be leaving those houses anyway. I never had the chance to talk to the people I were close with before and I really don't know how have they been. i am sure they don't know anything about me either.. :(
@Fireheart (683)
• India
21 Nov 09
Ya childhood really brings up my past memories, but i never kept ma past life to think about, and also thinking about my loving past makes me more i miss it . And yea i do contact ma mates, it really brings out emotions within and hanging out with friends.
• Philippines
21 Nov 09
Well, sad to say that i dont keep in touch with them anymore. Each of us has our own life, some went abroad others left in my hometown but i dont keep track of whats going on with their life. Whenever i go back to the province, which is very seldom, i usually see them. That is the only chance we are able to catch up with what is happening in our lives.
• China
21 Nov 09
Hi cathy lee,i think that going to keep touch with the childhood friends is really happy,recent days,i got into touch with my childhood friend ,i felt very excited,cause we lost contract for 8 years.