Does anyone have a long distance best friend?
By Rachel322
@Rachel322 (115)
United States
April 10, 2008 10:37am CST
My friend Hannah and I have been best friends for 12 years now. People are very surprised that we are so close dispite the distance between us and the fact that we haven't seen each other in 6 years.
Our entire friendship has been long distance. 6 short months after we became friends, I had to move away and not just to the next town over. At the time I was living in Missouri and we had to move to Wyoming. We spent the next 6 years talking on a daily basis and spending every summer together. During our senior year I moved to the town she was living in at the time. We actually got to spend a year together, but the summer after graduation she moved to Oregon with her family and I stayed her in Oklahoma to start mine.
We still talk on a daily basis and I wouldn't know what to do if we didn't. We hope to get to see each other soon.
14 responses
@Rachel322 (115)
• United States
11 Apr 08
Your right the length of the friendship is not important but rather the bond you have with that person.
@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
10 Apr 08
I have had a best friend for 30 years now and over the years she has moved around the country. We used to keep in contact by mail but then the internet made it so much easier to keep in contact. Now she lives only a three hour drive away and we see each other every couple of months. No matter the distance between us we keep in touch and remain close. A best friend is a precious thing to have.
@Rachel322 (115)
• United States
10 Apr 08
Most precious indeed. They understand everything about you, that no one else gets.
@michelyn (717)
• United States
11 Apr 08
One of my best friends from high school got married and moved to Tennessee. We didn't talk everyday, but we did keep in touch through e-mail and Yahoo! She did come down on vacation and visited and then when she got divorced, she moved back down here for a time. It's like no time lost when we are together. About six months after moving here, she got a job offer working on her base in Georgia. She's an Air Force Reservist. She took the job and moved to Georgia and shortly after was deployed to Iraq. She is coming home in 30 days now (YEH!!!) and her mother and I are throwing her a big party! We are both 35 now so it's been quite some time and no matter how far away she goes or moves, we will always be best friends.
@jesbellaine (4139)
• Philippines
10 Apr 08
Yes, I have a friend who decided to work in Taiwan for her family and I miss her so much. She was my classmate back in college, we were always together. Thank Goodness because even if she is far away, she always call us and we can always send her e-mails or message thru the roaming SIM! Just miss her!
@Rachel322 (115)
• United States
10 Apr 08
Emailing definatly makes it easier. When we were in middle school we were constantly mailing things back and forth. Ours parents always gripped about the amount of stampes we would go through on a monthly basis.
@skydancer (2101)
• United States
10 Apr 08
Yes, I do. I have one who lives in Pennsylvania (several hundred miles north of me), and several who are in various regions of the UK. We actually met online, so we lived far apart from each other from the very start. But we have been friends about five years now, and yes, it is safe as they have long since confirmed their identity to me. I actually have business relations with several of them. There are two in particular who I wish lived closer so that we could converse more often and possibly work together.
@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
11 Apr 08
wel I became friends with Donna when i was 10 an then my family moved from mass to fl an we are still best friends yes 32 years later she is even my daughters godmother an we aonly see each other maybe every 5 years if we are lucky
@vera5d (4005)
• United States
10 Apr 08
one of my best friends from high school decided she was going to go to college 14 hours away...I didn't really talk to her much while she was there except in the summer - then she moved to the other side of the country again to be with her boyfriend. I don't really consider her a best friend anymore, but we still like to catch up on things...our lives are very, very different now!
I have a hard time staying in touch with friends who live 15 minutes away though, so you are very lucky to still be in contact with someone long distance!
@littleone3 (2063)
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10 Apr 08
Yes i have two friends that live far away. One of them is about a three hour drive from where we live. But we keep in contact through the internet and are trying to arrange a visit. My other friend is a bit closer she lives about a two hour drive away. We also keep in contact through the internet and i see her a couple of times a year. She will either come to me or i will go down to see her. I miss then alot as when they lived in the same town as me we spent alot of time together.
@alex143 (69)
• Philippines
11 Apr 08
yeah best friend have a long distance because i myself is already encounter in that,,,i have a friends,,many2 friends,,starting when we are 6 years old,,but until now be are not separate each other,,,,
take care always
@nice030481 (1109)
• Philippines
11 Apr 08
i have also a bestfriend name lielani, she lives in a place far away from our home. we just met when we took up our review for the preparation in our board exam. i dont care that we just met in a very short time, but, i can tell that she is my bestfriend.
@starsapart (35)
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10 Apr 08
Yes! I have two long-distance best friends. Two girls I know from secondary school live in London, but we moved away. We only live about an hour away but with work & college we don't get time to see eachother. I've seen one of them a couple of times over the last month or so, but before that it was two years before we'd seen eachother. When we do see eachother, it's just like old times! There's no awkwardness or anything, I love it. I'd love to see them more, but it's fantastic knowing that they are always there.
@Sheena_C (87)
• Canada
10 Apr 08
My best friend lives about an hour away from me. It's not really all that long distance, but life definately makes that two hours seem very wide.
We are both very busy people with young familes, jobs, etc. We actually both have our own business so it makes actual contact next to impossible.
We see eachother maybe 1 - 2 times a year, but we talk online all the time.
