When Distance Divides Us - Friends You've Lost Contact With

Hi silver_song! I hear you. I miss them as well. I miss my gradeschool pals and highschool friends. We all have connected, like you, in facebook but we haven't really met in person again ever since we've parted ways from graduating in our respective schools. If I were to meet them again that will be when we have our reunion. I dunno if our conversations will be the same as before but I guess it will be a lot of chatting and talking about what happened when we left school, what happened to our lives and who's married and stuff like that. Lots of catching up to do really. But I would love to see them all again and I will hug them all because I've missed them. I don't think we would feel estranged to each other, I think we would be a bit shy at first again but as long as we get to open up to each other again, that's fine. I'm really excited to see them again. :)

Hi silver_song! This is interesting. One that has touched my heart. Friends that we grew up with and friends in elementary schools were the best of friends, at least for me. They never judged. They simply accepted us the way we were. And they just wanted us to be happy. Unfortunately true friendship like this may never last. Our lives' paths are never the same. I've met one or two recently. But things have never been the same. Like you said we have become strangers. Distance, time, age and life's experiences have separated us.

I moved a lot as a kid, so it'd be hard for me to name some off my friends. I remember my 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade best friends. I'm facebook friends with some kids from middle school. One actually went to my college for a bit, then dropped out. I had to cut ties with a good number of high school friends. I tried so hard to keep in touch, but when someone doesn't want to talk to you it's impossible to keep in touch for long. I go to school in a state I never lived in, so only the one middle school friend was here. The rest I don't see, really. One kid from high school moved to my city, but in a city of about 8.5 million you seldom just run into people. It's not impossible (my sister has), but it's unlikely.

Hello Silver and welcome here. I am in the same situation, came to live in a new city with my boyfriend. The city is 2 hours from home, but since we grow up with my childhood friends, everyone took his way and we just divided not because we wanted it, just simple decisions did it with us. My best friend from the childhood started to travel and work on a ship, other of my friends get married and had a baby. I was working in a close to ours city, we just had not time for each other, as it has been when we were kids. Now all of my friends are different. We are grown up. I don't know if they are happy, but i know that i'm not happy that way. I miss our streets, miss our games, miss the way we thought and lived before, because it was amazing. Now everyone doing his things by himself, without none of us around is ... i'm not sure how to call it - normal situation in life or just sad.

I don't really know what I would say to my old friends that I lost contact with. I know it will be awkward trying to pick up from where we left off because it is such along time ago. Maybe I will just ask my friend How is she doing and what is she doing lately? I guess it will depend on how she responds if she wants to continue our friendship or not. People change so I wouldn't expect a lot. But if you hit it off after talking to each other then you'll become friends again.

I talk to exactly no one I met in elementary or middle school, but I'm in touch with a handful of people I've known since high school. I wouldn't say that we're close, exactly, but we have actual conversations on a semi-regular basis. If it wasn't for the internet, I think I would've lost touch with them entirely. For me, I changed so much from when I was in high school to my mid-twenties that it's hard for me to relate to a lot of my friends from my teenager day. Even if there wasn't a distance between us, I think we would've naturally grown apart. I'm happy to run into an old friend and have a couple minutes to catch up. I don't find it awkward at all. It's just nice to see how people are going, even when you're not close.

i moved when i was in highschool, so all the friends i grew up with have been lost to me. i sometimes wonder what some of them are doing now.