College friends v. High School Friends
@cerebralcasserole (11)
United States
May 21, 2011 12:43am CST
College is a time of change. New school, new location, new people, new ways of thinking, etc. I know I went through drastic changes just in my first couple months of high school. Now, as a senior in college, I have friends that tell me they never kept in contact with their best friends from high school. I have kept close contact with my 3 best friends from high school even though we all go to different colleges. I have really close friends in college too. However, I still believe the relationship I have with my high school friends is much stronger than my college friends. I sometimes go months without contacting my high school friends, but nothing changes. We are still best friends. We get together anytime we are in town. I do not like to text or email. I prefer face-to-face contact. But now that I'm about to graduate college, I do not know if I will be able to maintain the relationships with my college friends. I think prolonged time without contact will break the relationship completely. How do you keep in contact with friends when you are far away? Does it just depend on the personality of your friends or does it depend on how much deliberate time you spend trying to maintain the relationships?
2 responses
@alex_99jul (2)
• India
21 May 11
i also feel the same thing ..i am in the 1st year of college but i don't feel the closeness with friends here than friends of high school.i miss them a lot.
@feeltheirie (301)
• Philippines
21 May 11
I have not been in contact with my close friends in high school. When we graduated and went our separate ways to study in college, we tried our best to keep the friendship. They go to my school and I go to their school just to chat. But then things happen and I don't know why we lost touch.
Although, I was not able to keep the friends I had in high school, I was able to keep the friends I met since my freshman in college. Up to now, 6 years afer we graduated college, we are still friends. They are all married now and have children. We meet once in a while bond and just chat about our jobs and family. Friendship should not be something that you need to work on to keep. If you guys are real friends, even if you do not text, chat or talk on the phone everyday, when you see them again it would feel like you just saw them yesterday. That is how comfortable a real friendship is for me.
