Home› All Encompassing Trip

Do you still hang out with your childhood friends?

LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
edited October 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm 30 now. There's probably a group of atleast dozen of us, most I've been hanging out with since about age 9.. anywhere from a few times a year to every other week.

Funny how bonds you make when you're young never seem to break. My parents don't seem to have this going.. guess I'm lucky to have such good friends.
Post edited by Unknown User on
«1

Comments

  • DonJonDonJon Posts: 5,089
    Yep Im still best mates with my best mate from age 8 (now over 30).
    Mum and dads closest friends has two daughters our age and Im still very close to both of them - like sisters really.
    My brother best mate thru school is now very close to me also.
    I only keep in contact (or close contact) with 3 guys from school
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    I have one friend who I have known since I was 5. I am 42
    GoiMTvP.gif
  • DrHeidi41DrHeidi41 Posts: 106
    I'm not really close with anyone I grew up with, but I did hang out with my first boyfriend the last time I was back home (almost four years ago now!). It was cool to catch up with someone who used to be the center of my universe, haha.
  • TerryibleTerryible Posts: 462
    I have still one, my best friend i have known since i was 3 (i'm 29 now) most of my other mates i still hang out with i met at university
    26/02/1998 Wellington, 09/09/2006 Marseille, 16/09/2006 Verona
    23/09/2006 Berlin, 30/09/2006 Athens, 18/07/2007 London
    02/07/2009 Honolulu (EV Solo), 22/11/2009, Sydney, 29/11/2009 Christchurch
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    i have two friends that i met when i was 11. im 36 now. the rest are just people ive known for a long time. a few of my best friends, ive known since the age of 21 or so.

    i moved when i was 10 or 11. so ..........there really was no chance of me keeping in touch with my early childhood friends.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    Unless you live next door to them i just dont get how you can keep in touch. You go through primary school then everyone goes their own way to secondary school, then they meet new people there then they go their own way again to college/uni/gap year etc.I say a random hello to a few on msn.
  • muiren77muiren77 Posts: 3,511
    my childhood friends were mostly relatives of mine...we seldom see each other now since we no longer live next door...but there's this one cousin of mine that even if we seldom see each other, the connection is still there...i really miss our old neighborhood...
    what is essential is invisible to the eye

    apparently, 07162056 is THE date...
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    had a few neighborhood friends...but never really was best of friends with them.

    my closest friends during childhood were my 3 cousins. They lived with us for a while and it was like having siblings:) I loved it and them! Unfortunately their parents went thru an ugly divorce and a custody battle, ultimately they went to live with their mom (their dad is my uncle) and I haven't seen them since I was 13:( I think about them and miss them very often.
    Sadly we don't speak to my Uncle anymore either, mostly for how he handled that situation. (yeah we're one of "those" families)


    *though I was able to have a short conversation on myspace with the one...but when I mentioned meeting he never responded.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    I have one really good friend who I've known since I was 12. Even though she lives on the other side of the country now we still keep in touch.
    Most of the other people I went to school with I wouldn't care to know now.
    A human being that was given to fly.

    Wembley 18/06/07

    If there was a reason, it was you.

    O2 Arena 18/09/09
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Nope.

    I did meet up with one not so long ago though (known each other since we were 8 and found each other through Facebook). It was a lot of fun (8 hours in a pub :o) and i'm sure we'd be good friends again if she lived closer... ah well...
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Yeah I'm still friends with a good few of my school mates. Three of them I see most weeks, and others I see every few months or so.
  • PJaddictedPJaddicted Posts: 1,432
    Yup.....just got back from Vegas with two of my friends from 7th grade!!! Three of our friends from High School were also with us! What a blast!

    oxc
    ~*LIVE~LOVE~LAUGH*~

    *May the Peace of the Wilderness be with YOU*

    He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
    — Unknown
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    I moved around too much as a kid to still have many childhood friends, except one, but the friends I made in my late teens are much more important to me. The friends I've known over the last 4 years, I hope to be friends with for life. I'm 20 now and there are a handful I will do everything in my power to stay in touch with til the day I die.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Nope. Moved a long way away from them right before high school. Haven't really kept up with them since.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    I do. :) one whom I've known since I was 6. we sort of fell out for a few years when we were 13-15 (different schools and all that) but have found each other again. she's such a hoot, my life would suck without her.

    one girl I've been friends with since we were about 5. lived across the street from each other.

    then a few I've known since I was 6 but only started to hang around with when we were 7.

    I couldn't imagine not being friends with these people. all the moving to other cities and being in different situations in life (in school/working..) doesn't matter. :)
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Nope, unfortunately.. Not even my Best Man.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    I'm still good friends with someone I've known since we were 9 years old.
    Other than that, there's not too many left. I kept in touch with a few people from high school, but that's about it.
    Chicago 2000 : Chicago 2003 : Chicago 2006 : Summerfest 2006 : Lollapalooza 2007 : Chicago 2009 : Noblesville (Indy) 2010 : PJ20 (East Troy) 2011 : Wrigley Field 2013 : Milwaukee (Yield) 2014 : Wrigley Field 2016
  • MrMerkinballMrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    I still see my best friends once in a while.

    There was a group of 7 of us from Grade 3 (1983) and we are all still best friends today.

    We are all married with kids now, so it is not as often as we would like.

    We have 2 annual events. Super Bowl at my house and we have been in a fantasy baseball pool together since 1991, so Draft Day is a big event.
  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    No. I have moved around a lot so I dont really have many childhood friends. I have friends from places I worked at when I was 16-17 still today but no friends from childhood
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    i have known my three closest friends that i hang out with regularly since i was 5 and i am 26 now.

    we were actually talking about this the other night. we couldn't believe that it's been 20+ years. hard thing to find these days.
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    There's a group of about 8 of us that still keep in touch and meet up. We met 38 years ago.
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    I still keep in contact with my childhood friends. I live pretty far from them now, but when I am home for the holidays, I usually try to get together with them. I'm sure that if we all still lived in the same area, we'd be close.
  • jasonwjasonw Posts: 424
    I still feel close to a good amount of my friends from childhood, but I don't get to hang out with them that much because after college we all scattered through the country (and the world). But i keep in regular phone contact and meet up a few times per year.
  • xscorchoxscorcho Posts: 409
    i also live far from any of my childhood friends.... some i see when i go home... i visited my best friend from childhood this summer... it was great to actually hang out instead of just emailing or talking.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Nope, unfortunately.. Not even my Best Man.
    She didn't get him in the break up too? :(
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,811
    Absolutely, my best friend Kathy, still keep in touch with her. I’ve known her for 38 years. When I talk to her, it’s as though we’re 7 years old again. I never feel uncomfortable around her, even if we haven’t necessarily seen each other in a while, we always go back to that same old kinship.

    And I also still see those I’ve known since I was 15 or so, hanging out in high school – we’re still all connected in one way or the other – and always know what’s going on in each other’s lives.
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    Yep I met my best friends in Kindergarten we were 4 & 5...we still hang out the three caballeros!
    IF YOU WANT A PLATE OF MY BEEF SWELLINGTON, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THE COVERCHARGE.
  • harrymanbackharrymanback Posts: 435
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I'm 30 now. There's probably a group of atleast dozen of us, most I've been hanging out with since about age 9.. anywhere from a few times a year to every other week.

    Funny how bonds you make when you're young never seem to break. My parents don't seem to have this going.. guess I'm lucky to have such good friends.

    not to be rude, but have you ever left home? i ask, because the cases of this i have seen over time are either ones who never went away to school, or still live in the town they grew up in.
    I don't want to be hostile. I don't want to be dismal. But I don't want to rot in an apathetic existance either.
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I'm 30 now. There's probably a group of atleast dozen of us, most I've been hanging out with since about age 9.. anywhere from a few times a year to every other week.

    Funny how bonds you make when you're young never seem to break. My parents don't seem to have this going.. guess I'm lucky to have such good friends.
    Good thread.
    Most of all my friends are all from Grade school. Some since 1st grade and others from 3rd. We all still hang out with our husbands and wives and children. Great people.
    Some have gone the successful route, and some have not. Some spend time with the family on weekends and some are at the bar every sat and sun.
    Different folks and different strokes.
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,330
    I still hang with my best friend from high school and my best friend from college
    im 40 ESSSH
Sign In or Register to comment.