Where's your bestfriend now?

Philippines
February 16, 2009 8:26am CST
Do you still hang out with your bestfriend now that you both live different lives? Most of us grew up with someone we called as our bestfriend. Someone who shares the same interests as we do, plays with us, listens to our angsts about the world. Now that we've grown up, met new people along the way, have our own families and relationships, we often find it hard to spend time with our bestfriend. Sometimes even zero time. Sometimes I miss the old ways. But I guess, that's how life works.
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@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
16 Feb 09
My childhood best friend lives in the same area where we grew up. I do not talk to her very often, but we stay in touch enough to know what goes on in each other's lives. My best-best friend lives where in the area where I used to live. She just moved back there. We kep in touch and talk to each other quite a bit. Because we do not live close to each other, I don't get to see her, but at least we are still really close.
• India
16 Feb 09
my best friend .. well .. if we happen to live in the same area .. and same place right from shooling till now ... with in a few months of span he is gng to leave to u.s for further studies ... so it would be appropriate for me to say he will be in u.s
• China
14 Mar 09
my best friend just got married, i am so happy for him. it is a shame that i sheded some tears when i attended his wedding, but they are tears of happiness.Even now we don't contact each other very often, but he is my best friend forever.
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
18 Feb 09
change and moving on is a part of life. u make new friends in different areas that u move on to. i have been to many schools, and made different friends in each one. some back east, some out west at high school, in my colleges, and after college. and now i dont really have time for the best friend thing. i am working on my career, promoting my first novel, seeking online writing jobs, and trying to draw a graphic novel. but i try to take time out and do other stuff.
@quinnkl (1667)
• United States
20 Feb 09
My best friend lives out of state, but we connect by email and IM (we are chatting even as I write this). So we have stayed connected all of these years. That is so rare now a days. Seems like as we grow and our lives change we all more in different directions and "move on". I am still in touch, though not as often, with my best high school friend as well. I feel really lucky that way. Good for the internet!
• United States
17 Feb 09
Don't have any friends to hang out with now..I hang out with my sister usually once a week..I think about the friends that I grew up with when I was way younger. I wonder where they are and what happened to them .We moved around so much when I was growing up that I lost touch with them..Then when I was older I did not seem to make any friends..I miss the the old days too.
• Philippines
18 Feb 09
i still keep in touch with my best friend. we still go out together, sometimes i visit her in her place, or we go to malls together, go to mass, watch movies. nothing changed, except maybe the activities we do together. when we were kids, we used to play house, when we got a little older, we will spend hours in bed reading pocketbooks because they have lots of pocketbooks for rent. she even stayed in my place when they were still looking for a more permanent place near their office.
• United States
17 Feb 09
Yes everything changes as we get older and sometimes we outgrow our friends. I feel that I became more mature than most of my friends and they had to catch up to me. However, other people who I call my friends or best friends are there and then sometimes they are not. Oh well what can you do. I just say at least I have my online friends. Something is better than nothing.
@chechuva (1275)
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
my bestfriends are in Philippines.. i really do missed the times were together. the saturday lunch out with them and laughing with them til we get tired.... but im still happy that we can still get in touch with each other via messenger and cellphone.... good thing technology made things easy for us to communicate... but anyway, at times we really have to be separated from our love ones... that's really lie is...
• United States
17 Feb 09
I have three best friends that I grew up with. We all used to hang out together and then when we got older, we moved away from each other. We all still talk on Yahoo messenger and Facebook. Two of them live in Minnesota still, the other one lives in Wisconsin and I live in South Dakota.
• Singapore
17 Feb 09
You are right to some extend, this is how life goes.. As we grow up, we drifted apart, we have our own family, own wives, own children, own work, we no longer share our problems as all of us have grown up, and we believe we can solve it by our own. We also feel more shy in troubling your best friends, since they have their own family and problems. As time passes, the most important people in your life will be your family, and no longer your best friends.. Is this life? Sad to say, its what most people are going through, but we should have the control over our life.. If its not what you want, change it!
@xiaouie15 (289)
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
BEST FRIEND? Oh well it is really hard finding one. Right now, I consider my dog my best friend. I used to have a best friend before but we lost contact. She went to New Jersey and I don't know what really happened to her now. I haven't heard from her since she got married. Oh, I hope she's doin well. I really miss her a lot. I haven't found someone like her since she went to New Jersey.
• China
17 Feb 09
i think of my bestfirend,two persons,a girl and a boy,they are my high school classmate. at that stage we are understand each other and talk about all, but after high school we are work in different city, so we are not so close. anyway that was happy time.
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
we still hang out all the time because that's my bestfriend for
@Imsocool (19)
• United States
17 Feb 09
You know I wonder the same thing. I moved out of state and I havent heard from some of my so call best friends who I have had for years. I guess when we all get older things in our life change but you may have a new friend that will be with you forever longer then you school friends. Time will tell and no matter what someone will be there and the true friends never leave you.
@jayyerex (224)
• Canada
17 Feb 09
My best friend moved to Scotland. He's been there for years. I miss him terribly. He's been making noises about moving back to Canada but to a totally different province. At least he will be in the same country though. I'm just happy that he's getting the chance to do what he wants to do with his life. I may miss him but his happiness is what really counts and he is very happy. So i'm happy as well, Jay
@bing28 (3795)
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
I'm just seeing my childhood best friend everytime we go home to our province to attend fiesta. I see her sometimes in 3 years or in 5 years. We never change however in treating each other, we're so close and really spend a day with each other talking, singing with little drinks. We see to it that we went swimming before parting for long years again. I have three other best friends for 20 years...One just passed away that really made a very sad start of the year for me. The other two dear friends of mine live in a nearby city but we just communicate thru cellphones. We used to see each other on special occasions like Birthdays, Christmas, New year and other family gatherings but we can maintain our friendship and love for each other.
• United States
16 Feb 09
my bestfriend from childhood and i only see each other about once a year now, but i still really enjoy our visits and know i could call her with anything if i needed too. i do wish we were closer and that growing up hadn't separated our lives so much, though.
@CRIVAS (1815)
• Canada
16 Feb 09
My best friend lives in Edmonton and I live in Calgary Alberta, we are pretty far from eachother and that makes it hard for us to spend time together. Regardless of how far we live from eachother, we still make it a habit to talk on the phone a couple of times per week and we email eachother every day. I find that in the time that we have been apart, our friendship has strengthned because we are still close even now. I know that there is no one else I would trust as much as her and I know that there are not a lot of people that understand me as well as she does. I too miss the way that things were before she moved but I am still happy that our friendship has survived this test. I know that we will be friends for a long time to come.
• Philippines
16 Feb 09
my bestfriend? or should we say bestfriends? huhuhu they're gone. they leave me alone in this cruel world. huhuhu.
16 Feb 09
I am still in contact with my best friend. We have been best friends since first grade. We have maintained that relationship all throughout school, and we plan to for the rest of our lives. We spend most days of the week together, and I don't think I could live without her.