Can you move on from people you were around 8 hours a day for three years?

Yah .. Ofcourse , it happens with everyone becoz when u enter the real world u should depend on urself and renounce all the pleasures and child plays ...... Unfriend friends is a bit rude , u can keep them in FB for minimum contact ... If u feel like not talking to them , avoid them . If u feel like not avoiding them , don't open FB or be invisible ......... Attitude Won't help u always that too with friends is idiotic ..... Short term penal might work ............ Anyway it depends on u , becoz u have shared some of ur memories , life with them .. So it z least courtesy to be friendly ................. If u think u did the right thing , u wouldn't have posted this discussion .......... Think about it .................... Bye take care .......

Yeah, I'd been feeling this need for quite some time with someone whom I was very close with for 16 years. I realized, I was the energy that fueled the relationship and we had just really grown apart as friends. We don't do the same things and we don't have similar interests anymore. It makes perfect sense to me to move into the realm I should be which would include the people. It was hard for me to let go of, but I realized it was more to hold on then letting go.

Yes. I have been cutting off quite a few relationships lately. I am sick of stupidity. I have unfriended by "best" friends. I am just so sick of drama and people that won't grow up.

Yes it has happened and not only with old high school friends but people in general. I have felt at times that a supposed friend and I have outgrown our friendship and have spoken to the person, less and less until it dwindles away. Life carries on and we develop new interests sometimes, so it is bound to happen from time to time.

Of course. . .as you get older, and have new experiences, meet new people and end up in new situations, this will naturally occur, even if you don't purposely end friendships. Your college friends will become closer to you than most of your high school friends, then the people you work with, then the people who have kids around the same ages as yours! But also, we all grow and mature at different rates. You may be outgrowing some of your high school friends (or they may be outgrowing you!). There is no reason you need to remain good friends with all of them, or even stay friends with them on Facebook--lol. However, unless they have done something wrong or hurtful to you, I would just let these friendships slowly dwindle, rather than actively cutting them off. You never know, 15 years from now, you may find that your interests converge again with theirs, (or one of them may become your boss) so why burn bridges when you don't have to?

Normally one will still have contact with former classmates, unless you change city or country. Also a reason, to move on from friends, could be that you know a new group of people and begin to frequent them often. Further another reason, because one moves away from friends, is the difference in opinions and views about life, politics and preferences. The best way is not to force it, if you want to cut off relationships.

Believe me, im like that too. On what ive been through in my life. I, sometimes cut off the possible communications i can have to those people ive been with. I think somehow its because of my pride and insecurities.