Are you still in touch with your childhood friends?

I left home at 18 to join the Marine Corps straight out of high school and ended up staying for more than 21 yrs, so I lost touch with everyone, even from one duty station to the next. There are a few that I served with that I keep in contact with here and there, but even that is difficult. I caught up with two friends that I went to grammar and high school with a couple of months ago on FaceBook and we chat here and there, and one of them still lives at 'home' and showed up at the viewing when my mother passed away two weeks ago. Another that I went to grammar/high school with showed up as well and that was a complete surprise as I hadn't had contact with her since I left home. I'd love to catch up with them but honestly, do we even have anything in common any more?

I try to keep in tpuch with all my friends. We don't meet regularly but do stay connected through social networking sites, phone etc. Today's world is very competitive and its very hard to find out time for outings, re-unions etc. But I have tried to stay connected with my friends from my nursery class too. LOL i know it seems funny but it is true, me and my friend were inseparable when we were four but then her dad got tranferred to another city :( we tried to remain in touch till we were in grade 4 but then lost all contact and now after sooooooooo many years we met again on a social networking site.....:) I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY ABOUT IT!

Hello ladyee. In the first years after my graduation from high school and college, we contacted each other, but gradually we lost contact with each other. Back then, the popular communication was by writing letters and going to make a call in a phone booth...Also like you said, we tend to move from place to place and that is one of the very reasons that we stay out of touch with our classmates. As to childhood friends, I don't have any contact with them, either, because of the same reasons. But still their images are deeply impressed with me in my mind.

I met my best friend when I was 5 years old. We went thru school together. Our kids are cousins. THat was the end. When she started dating my boyfriends Dorky brother she thought she was too good. She dissed me big time. Even when she dated my aunts husband and had a child. I stuck up for her. WHen she got with him she changed and never talked to me. Funny thing is she isnt with him anymore. She turned out to be some type of pill freak having all types of surgeries she didnt need just to get pain medication. No I dont talk to my childhood friends and thankfully so. dl

i try too but ive found that its in many instances not possible. im living across the country from where i grew up and no one really liked me in school...so yeah. in fact i haven't even heard anything about class reunion...and that should be this year. should have heard about it by now!

You are right, for life, we have to change job-to-Job, city -to-city, we changed our phone number a lot. I did keep in touch with some of them, who is near by the house in my hometwon. When i get back to my hometown, once or twice a year, i will call them and we gather together have a dinner or something. The sad thing is i lost most of them, only few stay in touch.

Well buddy i am a student now doing my engineering so some of my childhood friends are still with me while i meet the others occasionally but i do make it a point to meet them as it a must in order to maintain a quality circle around. Recently there was a reunion where we met all of them. it was really great and it rocked. I feel that no one can stay alone in this and every body has the need to be with others and so i think we need to keep in touch with all the people we no matter what they are to us. Good Luck. Keep smiling. take Care.

I talk to a few friend from high school, old jobs, and grade school. But I don't talk regularly to any of them. Usually not much more these days than an occasional e-mail or a holiday card with a small note.

Two of my best buddies were my friends since we were about in our grade school. One has become a doctor to my kid since she was a pediatrician and the other was my former officemate but now she owns a neighborhood grocery store. All of us still are in the same neighborhood and we practically bumped with each other as often as we get. They were my bridesmaid when I got married and I am their bridesmaid too both on their weddings. We share lots of secrets and thoughts and even our own kids were best buddies. I can say they were one of those precious possessions I have in life and I would never trade them for any other friends. :-)

NO. Though I am very much interested to see them and have a regular touch with them, I am not able to do.As we all are scattered here and there, I am finding very difficult to collect their contact numbers itself. Recently I collected some numbers and used to talk with them at least once in a month. But this can not said as regular touch. I happened to see one of my school mate after 25 years and we both found difficult identify each of us. But the moment was very happy.

we constantly moved because of my mother's job. i dont even have what i can call a best friend when i was a child. but i did have many friends wherever we stayed. i dont have any contacts with them anymore, others i forgot the names already. but if someone will remember be from childhood as their friends, and would contact me i'd sure welcome it, it would be really nice to get in touch with them a again. you are fortunate that you can still get in touch with your childhood friends.

Yes I sometimes get in touch with them. I missed their companies, laughters, and cheers last time when we are in the group. We just send message through texting and calling in cellphone. We live far from each other thats why it will only once in a week. We are so sweet in talking like we are in near to each one. It is so sweet memories I had in my life.

Yes, I am still in touch with one of my childhood friends. There were many friends in schools but as times passes all get different way and we loose contact. But one of my childhood friends is always there for me in any condition. we share each others feeling even though we both get married now. I hope in future I can get in contact with some other friends too..

some keep in touch and some do not... mostly, we only say hellos casually... maybe because we are living different lives now. we don't connect as before during our younger days when there is more bonding and hanging out...

Yes I am still in touch with my childhood friend, we also became classmates again when we were in college. We seldom see each other these days as she has her own family and moved to Cavite while I live in Manila. We see each other like 2-3 times a year. We also keep in touch using Friendster and by texting on cellphone.

I don't talk to many of mine. I still talk to the ones I was really close to though. I wish I had time to meet with my friends more, but I guess that's how it is sometimes. I'm busy and my friends are busy and my best friend just had a baby so she's being a mommy now. One of my best friends and I do take a few trips a year to go shopping somewhere different each time. They're just day trips, but it's fun and it's gave us the opportunity to find some interesting places to visit.

Hello friend, I have lived in three cities till now and I have made friends in schools in all of them. As you rightly said, you have to keep moving in life and I would say that distance tests the true strength of friendship. If it can survive distance, then only we can classify it as true friendship. Yes, I have been lucky to have found 4-5 such friends in the 24 years of my life till now and I do make it a point to meet them whenever possible, which is less than once a year.

The childhood friends usually refer to those who we are with in our lower primary classes. We are too small kids and very few are left in our memory as we grow older and most of them are forgotten. I have only one such childhood friend who is still in touch with me.

Froc Childhood i was having very less freinds but those were very special to me. They were freind in real sense.I was having three best freainds from my childhood. And they were with me till my college time. As now we are in professional life. So two of then are living out of station. But whenever they come here in our city they always come to meet me. We always have net and telephonic contact. One freind is still with me. Hope we four will remain always together.

my best fd is from high school and we maintain this fdship for over 15 years. sometimes, i think it's not easy to find a really good fd when i grown up.