Have you lost touch with close friends???

United States
October 28, 2009 11:08am CST
Today I was thinking about a close friend of mine who I haven't spoken to in quite a while. We used to talk everyday, but since I've had my child I haven't had the time to talk to her and see how she's doing. I'm am going to call her today, so as not to lose such a good friend. Have you lost touch with any of your close friends?? What event occured that caused you to fall out of touch?? Do you plan on trying to get back in touch with them???
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20 responses
@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
29 Oct 09
Hi Bambi, welcome to mylot. To answer your question...I have a best friend, we have been friends for close to 30 yrs. When our kids were small we sort of lost touch too. We lost so many years of important time together. We always knew we still were best fiends, we just were so busy with our lives. One time years ago we talked about how much we needed each other during that time and just didn't pick up the pone. We made a pact that we would never loose touch with each other again, no matter what we would stay in touch, we would see each other and spend what time we could with each other. Friendships are so impotant, call your friend, don't let her go.
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
29 Oct 09
I have fell out of contact with so many friends over the years. I just wanted to share a good story out of it though. I hadn't talked to a girl I was friends with in nine years. Just last month she found me on myspace. We was soo excited to talk to each other after soo many years. We talked on the phone for one hour and a half. I keep contact with alot of my friends through myspace and facebook.
@calai618 (1773)
• Philippines
29 Oct 09
Yes i have. I am a homebuddy right now and i rarely see my closest friends. I only get to check on them through the internet and the cellphone. We all live too far from each other and we work on different places tht it's really imprctical and improbable to get to see each other often. i miss them all.
• India
29 Oct 09
Hello I lossed lot of contacts like this, When i was studying, i has lot of friends, after that also, we used to communicate with each other. But after some years, Once we got married one by one and changed place of living and contact info. we loosed our contacts. Some of them i met unexpedly in different places. For remainaing people I tried a lot to get in touch. again we started our chit chat. But could not contact freequently in these busy lives. Thanks BHA
• Chile
29 Oct 09
it`s kind of difficult to keep in touch with ur firends, specially while u are getting old... my friends are being my friends for a long time, but i realize that while we are having family we start to be appart. we still love each other a lot, but as much we try we cann`t be in touch as much as we want. for my daugther b-day i invited to all my friends (they have babies too) but one was working, other had her baby very sick, other live to far away and only one could make it. they are all my dearest friends, when i need them they are with me, like now, that i have cancer, they are very worry about me... but i miss the before... u know, when we used to hung up together... no husband, no babies... no getting old!!!! hahahaha
29 Oct 09
lost touch with so many.Reason:got married ang moved to another city.
• India
29 Oct 09
Yes, I have lost touch with two of my best friends over the years. One was at school and I lost touch with her immediately after school got over and the other was at college. The reasons were many…career opportunities, marriage, moving to another city, family life etc. However, in hindsight I feel that its really difficult for people to continue with the same set of friends throughout their lives. Our priorities change and our opinion about a lot many things are no longer the same. Differences crop up, comparisons between families and kids, preferences changes, timings differ and so many different things become a barrier to maintaining friendship. So if you’ve got somebody out there whom you call a true friend, don’t wait any more…call her up and renew the bond.
• Philippines
29 Oct 09
i did lost contact for a while with my very close friend since elemntary grades. Just recently, we came to get in touch again through the help of the internet and I found out that she's living abroad. When she came to the country a few weeks ago, we got reunited.
• Philippines
29 Oct 09
I do have close friends whom i lost touch with. Friends from high school and also college. Sometimes i try to find them in social networking sites. But as of now i wasn't able to keep in touch with them. I would love to communicate again since these close friends would associate me to the fun , adventurous, happy moments of being in school. I dont really understand how eay it is to lost touch to these very important people. Maybe priorities changed, new environment or even change in physical locations.
@checkmail (2039)
• India
29 Oct 09
Hello bambi1821 this is checkmail and often do deeply miss my some of the close friends of the past as well as present.Yes due to education preference and carrer preference there have been lot of friends lossing out of me.Means can't keep it up with them anymore as earlier did.yeah its quiet a bit saddy situation if we think we ourself lost our best friends for some studies or career purpose.But still life goes on and on and we should live it up.
@lindiebiz (1006)
• Canada
29 Oct 09
i have lost touch with some of my close friend especially after graduation, i would like to keep in touch with them and would try to do so
@irene3184 (898)
• Philippines
29 Oct 09
There are of my close friends that I lost contact because we have a busy and hectic schedule and sometimes it is not a part of our priority.Some have their own family now.But I still have friends that I have contact and gather for sometimes.
@getbrowser (1708)
• China
29 Oct 09
In the past time, it is very easy to lose touch with one of my friends. You see, there are many situations, such as graduation, for a better job, that can make us lose the touch with our old friends. But now, we can keep in touch with all our friends easily without any worry about losing the touch with each other. Yes, with the development of the Internet, we can communicate with our friends timely at any time. I have planed on getting back in touch with my old friends through Facebook, which has provided us a simple way to find our friends.
• China
29 Oct 09
Due to some reason,i have been lost one of my good friend .The feeling make me pain for a long time.I try to save this friend ,but time seems to seperate us .when we sit together ,we don't have same topic.The relationgship of us were not changed now, Sometimes i think whether i lost this close friend .Think a while ,i thimk that the true friend need to confirm with time.i think she will find that there is a friend always wait here.
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
29 Oct 09
I think everyone has at least one close friend that they talk to and hangout with and I know how easily it is to lose touch with friends,and I know in the past I have had friends that I stopped talking to for some reason or another,and I have like four friends that I used to talk to that were kind of close friends,and I no longer talk to them because they turned out to not be very good friends,and I do not plan on talking to them anymore,and I have two friends that I talk to all the time,even though I do go a while sometimes without talking to them,but we always talk sooner or later,and we hangout every once in a while.
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
28 Oct 09
Friendship has its ups and downs. One has to work things up to keep it. Just like what you are intending to do. Friends don't actually want to lose the relationship. Many times, things happen beyond our control and so we lose touch. In my case, my closest friends chose to make foreign lands their homes.
@mohitseth (568)
• India
29 Oct 09
ya my friend i had a internet friend with whom i used to have voice vhat daily and i like her very much but suddenly one day our contact was broken.she have not mailed me from 2 months and no phone calls i am from india and she is from pakistan.we belong to different countries and cannot meet her.i miss her so much. but one has to move on in life.but the great memories of her will remain in my mind. happy mylotting.
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
28 Oct 09
It is so easy to lose touch with friends. After high school we all seem to go our own ways and live our own lives. So many move away and you lose contact with them. I have been able to get back in touch with high school classmates through Facebook. There were names and faces that i had not thought of for a long time. Now I am able to stay in touch with long lost friends through the internet. It almost seems unreal.
@ybong007 (6643)
• Philippines
29 Oct 09
I've lost contact with most of friends when I moved to the city to work, we used to communicate for sometime until it stopped. I have plans of getting in contact with them but I guess each and everyone has his own family already and has moved to other places too. I guess, people just tend to forget and moved on with their own lives. Cheers!
@bluray (408)
• Singapore
29 Oct 09
As we grow older and the responsibility increases ,we get engrossed so much in our daily routines that its easy to lost touch with lots of our good friend.It also happens due to shifting to another city,where the only means to be in touch is through phone or net only.but one cant express its true feeling through calls. But if we have our dear friends,we should make up a point to call them once in a while so that old friend ship do not fade.