How often do you meet up with friends for lunch?

Malaysia
August 31, 2009 6:12am CST
To many, this is not such a great thing. However, for many of us, we are too busy to meet our friends for lunch and have to set apart dates just to do this. Let us not take this for granted. It is always good to get together with old classmates and to trade the latest events in our lives. I used to the last few years. Now that a close friend who joins us at this usual luncheons has passed on, we hardly meet these days. I wish we could do so but sometimes other things get in the way. How often do you meet up with old friends? I am not talking about office colleagues? What do you talk about when you meet? Pray tell.
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16 responses
@mikeysmom (2088)
• United States
1 Sep 09
i do not have the free time or the money to meet up with friends for lunch and many of my friends do not have the free time either as they work also. i do try to have friends over for coffee now and then and i meet up with them for coffee a few times per year but my priority is raising my son and taking care of the home and working.
@bing28 (3795)
• Philippines
1 Sep 09
I just meet up with friends for lunch during their special occasion like their birthdays. How I wish to meet up with them for lunch more often but time is really the problem. Thanks for posting I remember my dear friends.
@dreamr802 (985)
• United States
31 Aug 09
I meet up with a lot of my friends for lunches or dinners, whenever we get the chance we always meet up...but now it sucks because my 2 best friends both moved away, so now we won't be able to see one another as often as we use to. But that's ok, I still hang out with my friends that are still here.
@taztheone (1721)
• India
31 Aug 09
Since I like friends more than anything, I always used to meet up my friends. Infact almost all the days I'm with some or other friends of mine since I enjoy being with my friends
@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
1 Sep 09
gracefuldove, nice discussion.. frankly speaking, I have not been meeting my old school mates since many many years ago.. right after school, everyone move apart, and left not many of those who stay on and keep close contacts, especially me. I have been moving from one school to another, from one country to another, and most importantly, my friends are unable to locate me that often when gatherings appear... Recently, when I have my baby girl, there when I got the time to catch up with my mates, and from the advance technology of Facebook, we connected and everyone knows everyone's recent events.. they made an effort to come by visiting me, and we have come to a point that we should keep in touch more often... I feel that school time friends are more pure comparing that those we get during expose to social life.. :)
• China
1 Sep 09
Yes.I often go out with friends.My husband did not want me to stay at home a long time.A person can be boring out the disease.So my husband took me to attending a friend's dinner or a banquet.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
31 Aug 09
Man, since I moved to Sacramento, I miss having lunch with my friends. I need to make some new friends. lol
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
31 Aug 09
Until we were not thrown far flung by our jobs we the group of eight would often meet for late night dinner and sometime boozing too. But now all have got married and are busy in their respective family and hence hardly get opportunity to assemble together for a party or lunch or dinner. now we have to plan once in a year and it must get scheduled six months before. lol
• India
31 Aug 09
very rare i am busy with my 2y old son
@sblossom (2168)
31 Aug 09
It's shame i have not contacted with my friends for long time, so i have not had lunch or meal with them for long time. I really miss them. However life is really changing a lot so sometimes i feel difficult to find common language with my old friends. I think i need to keep the old relationship, but i also need to develop new relationship. I just made a new friend. she's a very nice old lady. she invited me for afternoon tea last week. It was very nice.when we were together she talked with me about english learning. She's a very experienced teacher who teaches foreigner to study English. i really enjoyed it.
• China
31 Aug 09
AS you say the same!We are all busy and want to party with friends is not easy!Very good friends for two weeks,or meet once a month..just friends,classmates may meet once a year may also be longer..I want to say life is so,no matter how good friends can't be together every day!But When I need help,friends will definitely be together!so, i think it requires trust between friends,real friends no matter how long it did not meet good-bye when they must be very beautiful!
• Philippines
31 Aug 09
During my high school days, my close friends and I used to have lunch out during Saturdays and have bonding moments. But as soon as we reach college and have graduated already, we only have dinners during special occassions. There are even times that either I or any of my close friends will not be able to make it due to some certain circumstances. But we always try our very best to see each other at least once a month.
• Philippines
31 Aug 09
when i was in college, my friends and I used to lunch together in the canteen, outside canteen or Mcdonalds. but when we reached second year and i had a mess up schedule, i wasn't into their lunch times anymore, but when ever i am free i would always have lunch with them.
• India
31 Aug 09
After marriage,I hardly get time to have to meet up and have lunch with friends.My life has totally changed after marriage,very little time for friends and I am planning to change this now,by making time for myself as my kids are grown ups now.
• Philippines
31 Aug 09
Yes, i totally agree with you. Now that I have resigned from my job, I am able to meet my friends from past companies, university friends, etc. I just do it though for at least twice in a month.
@cherrc (661)
• Philippines
31 Aug 09
it's been a long time that i havent seen my friends in high school and so when one of my former classmates organized the meet ups, we were so excited about it. now, we're planning to meet at least once a month or whenever possible so we kept contact numbers. lunch out also with my lawyer friends whenever im in their area coz of our hectic scheds. they became my friends during law school days. so we get to see during lunch whenever free and call it an ambush date! ΓΌ