Do you still hang out with your childhood friends?

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  • nuffingman
    nuffingman 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.
  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday 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.
  • jasonw
    jasonw Posts: 435
    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.
  • xscorcho
    xscorcho 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.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 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"
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    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
  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone 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.
  • harrymanback
    harrymanback 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 guy
    acoustic 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.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,164
    I still hang with my best friend from high school and my best friend from college
    im 40 ESSSH
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    i'm 31 and my best friend is still my best friend from when i was 5. my core group of closest friends are still my high school friends. i live @2 hours away from all of them but still see them all the time. i feel like it's rare that we've stayed so close - my other friends (work, college, etc) don't seem to have that. another reason to love scranton. :D
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Well, I'm only 21, but I've gone through every stage of school/college with the same best friend I've had since I was 4. :)
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Well, I'm only 21, but I've gone through every stage of school/college with the same best friend I've had since I was 4. :)
    wait..you're only 21!!

    way to make me feel old...great, now I have to treat you like a kid brother.
    IF YOU WANT A PLATE OF MY BEEF SWELLINGTON, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THE COVERCHARGE.
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    failedpersephone wrote:
    wait..you're only 21!!

    way to make me feel old...great, now I have to treat you like a kid brother.
    If it helps, I combine the physical fitness of a 92 year old man with the "kids today" mentality of the same 92 year old man.

    Damn kids better stay away from my bins.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    If it helps, I combine the physical fitness of a 92 year old man with the "kids today" mentality of the same 92 year old man.

    Damn kids better stay away from my bins.
    hahahhaa you have no idea how much that helps!

    (hey! start complaining about the price of tomatoes!!)

    *thread integrity* my best friends and I have been in contact with each other every day since we were 4 & 5, even tho one of them moved away for work purposes, we still talk daily, and try to get together at least once a year.

    so its been 29 years of friendship...two boys and me!
    IF YOU WANT A PLATE OF MY BEEF SWELLINGTON, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THE COVERCHARGE.
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    No. For whatever reason we drift apart. I don't talk to anyone from high school or college. I rarely see friends from when I was little.

    My current best friends are all people I've met within the last 10 years or so. People from previous jobs, etc.
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    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.

    I don't see any of my childhood friends (except my sister). I only miss one of two of them anyway, but I moved so many times that our lives are quite different.

    Do you still live in the town you lived in as a child?
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    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.

    Yep. I've got most of my friends still that I met in intramural soccer and in Tee-ball.

    I lose a friends here and there due to tight marriages/death/or personality problems, but the main core is still going strong.
    NERDS!
  • EvilMerlin
    EvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    I don't even have any high school friends around me...

    The best friend I have hasn't even known me for five years...I just kind of come and go with others I guess. The last couple of years it's kind of started to eat at me on the inside.
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    I'm 21 now and I've known three of my best friends since we were three. I started 'hanging out' with my best friend when we were 10, but I knew him from before.
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