Do you think that over time we have few true friends?

With my long time friends,certainly i lost contact with some of them,but luckily i got few and still having communication here on the net. But with my recent friends that i have right now,we always get time to be together. We always sets up to gather and have some fun. I love my friends company and we don't want to miss a thing,we always make up with days that we didn't see each other. have a great day

i have graduated from college about three years, i have a lot of roommates and friends ,but long time we not haven't seen,sometimes we can see on internet ,to talk about work and life ,our friendship never fadeaway,just like before,i thinke time and distance never take away our friendship .

I agree that overtime, we gain and lose friends, either because we each have our own lives to live and we can't always be together with someone even if we want to because at some point we are to have different choices in life.

Once upon i had plenty of friends, more than i could handle.As you have written over a period of time they have dwindled and now i just have a couple or so.About 3 years ago i started on a drive to get in touch with my scholmates and managed to collect half my class of the final year.We have since then met every year at my house generally in the month of Jan.Since quite a few have settled abroad their visit to our city has been made into an occaision and excuse to party. However i have just one or two good friends out of the whole lot and we do meet once in a while.I have got accustomed to being away from them and am not bothered anymore.

friends loose touch with each other through time, but those who will find you special will really find ways to keep in touch with you. as we get older we also realize who are really are true friends and the older we get the fewr friends we have.

Same here I can't contact my other friends anymore except for my closest ones. Most of them are already busy as well but good thing I was still able to communicate with them through facebook.

yes it does happen and even though I am in touch with almost all my friends over net but there are only a few that I am really close to. I feel its because we tend to share same thinking and values and such friendships run deeper and tend to stick for life. So does mutual respect for each other , there are often few on whom you know you can count on in case of any emergency such relationships last for a life time.

I agree with you. People change as time goes by. Especially when you are in your down time, you can see who are your true friends at that time. A friend in need is a friend indeed. The famous people always have lots of "friends". That is because people want to get close to them but one day when they have nothing, then people will leave. Sometimes we lose contact because we are already different types of people. I love China

It doesn't seem like you will lose touch, but it happens. We will get busy with our lives. Some of us have children, get married, and other things that make us loose track of each other. I talk to a few of my friends from high school, but the rest are completely lost. I hope one day, we will reunite.

Yes, I admit that as of now, I don't have a specific person whom I can consider a friend. My best friends during my high school and college days were all busy with their work and their families now. It has been more that 15 years since we haven't seen each other though some of them are facebook friends which is already a way for getting in touch with them.

hello there,i think that study has to be done again because the conclusion is true but its for few years back. nowadays, people use internet widely,so many social network such as facebook and myspace.keep in touch with old friend or new friend just by leave message on their account. i have done it,and we usually plan a reunion when there is free time.that is the good site of internet..

There are many friends with whom I lost contact for different reasons throughout the years,and I managed to reestablish connection with some of them at least one,but there are still a few people I've known for quite a long time and still live in the same city with me and we meet frequently.I think it's wonderful if we manage to stay in touch with a few old friends because they are the most reliable in my opinion;of course,it's also great if we can make new friends,but old ones will always be special for me.

I agree, as we move on with our lives we tend to loose touch with family and friends. My dad was in railway service and was transferred from one place to another quite often and before when I was small I didn't have sense of keeping in touch and as I grew older it sort of became my habit and I never kept in touch with any of my old friends (school or college or even neighbour hood friends). Now that I am far away from my family I sometimes wonder why am I the way I am? How come I never kept in touch with anybody and wonder about how some of my friends must be doing. Although from all this I learned a lesson and now I make sure that I call everybody that I know at least once a year to see how they're doing. Not a very good number (once a year) but I should say that it's a big change for me and I am liking it.

Yes I do believe that people have very few true friends as they get older. I know I have about 2 friends that I went to school with and still speak to. I have no friends that I went to elementary school with. Everybody grows in their own way and a lot of times it is away from the people they thought they would spend forever knowing. I have come to terms with it, its just so hard to make new friends.

A lot of it I'm sure has to do with our busy schedules. We have less time to actually socialize as we grow older and gain more responsibilities. However, I think that it also has to do with the fact that most people just like to cause drama and when we get older, we just get sick of it and then we are left spending our time with the people who have proven to be a true friend and not do such things. I only have a few friends and it's mostly just due to the fact that if people are problem-starters and I realize this, I simply stop hanging out with them.

Most definitely I have lost contact with many friends and that's because I never really made the true friends that other people had. I guess we lost contact because we couldn't see each other really because either I was busy with school and an excessive loads of works. I guess it is true that we start to lose friends as time passes.

I think, in general, this is true. I think there are a lot of reasons this happens, including people having busy/conflicting schedules as you said. I also think we grow more confident in who we are as we get older so care less and less about having so many friends. You care more about being a better friend to the few who matter. This is very true with me because I used to have so many friends but I see myself closer to a select few and just not caring to keep in contact with the others because the relationships are superficial. I see myself being a better friend and being there more for those selected few, so i think its a good thing.

I lost contact with a lot of my high school friends after we graduated and moved on with our lives, but through the wonders of technology (and facebook!) I'm now in touch with them once more. However, given that so much has happened in our lives, we're not as close as we once were. I think social networking sites such as facebook are a good thing for those of us, like me, who now live in a different country to where we were born and grew up. Communication is easier and faster than picking up the phone and calling them. In saying all that, I have a few very close friends that I've made over the past few years that I wouldn't give up for anything. While some friends leave us, new ones take their place.

Usually, we make a lot of friends in our life. Some of them are around us and some are far away. Some people have friends just want to take advantage of. Some will treat friends to dinner when they need friends’ help and when they have to protect themselves they will put their friends in a difficulty. Then what is a true friend? But if someone you call a friend dont stick beside you through thick and thin then i dont think they were ever your friend in the first place.