The Bonds of Friendship

It's hard to keep in contract once you leave school. Unless you are already close to start with, it is natural for you to drift away. Where you next go to, you will find new friends. It is unfortunate, but that's how it usually turns out.

A friend of mine has an interesting observation that links to your discussion. He claims that the friendships that last a lifetime are often made during or before high school or college, and that the friends that we make after that, however close they may be to us, when we are associated with each other, will drift away, when separated by factors like distance. While I don't entirely agree with his theory, I have to admit that it is true to a large extent, in my own life. My best friend, the guy who proposed this theory, has been my friend since high school, and though we are in different cities now, we still correspond and talk to each other regularly. My other close friends too were those with whom I did my college studies. When I visited my home town recently, these were the friends that I remembered to visit, while several other friends, those that I met during the course of work or at graduation were hardly even remembered. Your discussion seems to further prove the veracity of my friend's observations.

Well, that is just so good for you. I still talk to some of my friends from high school. It is not like it used to be but it is better than nothing.

There are some people who are emotionally bounded of theese school times. They usually organize meetings or keep close contacts with some of their school friends long years later. It`s not the same with me. I remember some names, faces, but i dont need to refresh this comunication.

Even though we have our separate live we still manage to have a communication. I have few friends from college that I still have a constant contact (thanks for this tech) and one friend form high school. Sometimes losing contact doesn't only mean of not having a medium to have that communication but I think other reason like other circle of friends arise of not interested anymore. Like they said "friends come and go but stick to those who also hold on to you".

I don't keep in touch with people from high school or those I met during the two years I was in college. In some cases the people I was friends with in high school, we don't have much in common now, as our lives have gone in different directions. Recently I've thought about emailing people I got out of touch with, whose email addresses I still have. But it's been so long since we've emailed each other,(years in some cases) that I'm hesitant in doing that. I don't know if they'll even remember me, or might wonder why I'm suddenly emailing them now. They might not even have the same email that I still have listed for them.