My old buddies are abandoning me

[Guest ShooterJay]

I was watching the old MTV show "Undergrads" tonight on Comedy Central (awesome show btw, really underrated) and it got me to thinking- how my old high school friends and I aren't really that close anymore.

 

The first few months of school we talked all the time, and visited each other a few times, and now outside of one friend who I talk to once a week, none of them seem to want to chat anymore, they're all too busy, we don't seem to have time to connect. And these were guys I was really tight with, like the animated dudes on the show.

 

I suppose this is pretty normal, that as time went on we'd drift apart. Everybody's got new friends at their own respective schools. I'm genuinely having an awesome time in college, easily 1000x better than high school. Still, it sucks that that chapter of my life is closed, and while you've gotta stay optimistic and happy and look to the future, it's really sad when it hits you.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Same thing happened to me (although my college experience was nowhere near enjoyable) -- I sometimes wonder what happened to my high school chums. The thought of any of them having kids sends shivers up and down my spine...

[Guest The Electrifyer]

Thats what I kind of fear next when when I graduate high school. I'm good friends with a lot of people I know and school right now is kind of a meeting place for me and all the guys I know.

[Guest papacita]

I can count on one hand how many times I've seen or heard from my HS friends since I graduated. It sucks considering how tight we all were the last couple of years, but guess there's not much you can do.

[Guest Will Scarlet]

I have not had much contact with my friends after high school. Of course, I was not exactly close to anyone in high school, and basically considered graduation as closing the book on that part of my life forever. Though, sometimes I wonder if I had taken advantage and became part of the inner circle of my class where I would be now, but I figure that not much would be different.

 

I do sometimes wonder whether the rest of my classmates stay in contact or not. One of my last memories of high school was a conversation a teacher who had been at the school forever and a few classmates about whether they would stay friends or not after high school. The students said that they were close knit and that wouldn't happen to them, while the teacher had seen this all before and said that it would. Part of me wonders who ended up being right. Offhand, I would probably say the teacher.

[Guest EQ]

I'm a Junior in college. By now, some of the HS acquaintances I have already lost touch with their friends from HS, but I was lucky enough to still be friends with the *good* friends I had in High School. We're still a tight group.

[The Dames 0]

I was the kinda guy that was in multiple circles in high school. I was only really tight with about one or two guys and I'm still close to them to this day, but they're the only people I still talk to from high school. From college, I had primarily one circle, which was the wrestling club and for the most part, I'm close with some of them, including my boy EQ.

 

Dames

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Yeah, I've lost contact with most of the people I knew. One friendship with an old girlfriend I should have tried to keep up.

 

But I pretty much have 2 good friends left from high school that I hang out with often.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I gladly faded away from most of the folks I hung out with in High School. There's still a small cloister I've always been close to, but pretty much everyone I knew that I wouldn't call a close friend is long gone. Many moved off, others settled down and started breeding.