where is our friendship when we are getting older and older.

As we grow older, we mature, we meet new friends, we do different things. But this does not mean that we stopped being friends with one another. A little effort of being a thoughtful friend can go a long way. If they do not initiate the first move, why not you start calling them one by one and ask if you could have a get together and catch up on another's life.

Hello Ali! I´m hope that you are fine. It´s true, as we get older we get a lot of duties, but if he/she is really a goodfriend of yours you should take the time to talk to each other, to sow friendship. This is a challenge. I phone once a month my bestfriend I met her 25 years ago. She lives abroad. We haven´t seen in 10 years but we phone us each month. Blessings Ali... dainy

you are right. many of my childhood friends are lost. i have no connection with then. remaining of them are busy with their jobs and families staying far away from me.

Yes, I remember my grandpa who lost most of his friends. He often told me stories regarding his younger days, the fun and the people close to him. Now only few are alive and I can imagine myself when the time that I get old- will I be able to connect with my old friends too? Or those days will remain a memory.

Yes that is true, remember nothing is permanent in this world. As we grow older and older we will have our own lives, we meet new friends but the memories are still there.

May be because we change our mind from playing & friendship to earning & living.

If you have a good bonding and you treat your friend as your brother or sister, your friends will be remain your friend until both of you get old, your friend will never leave you, you will both share your wonderful memories of the past, and it is possible that your children's will become good friends also.

I think now a days most people are busy in their life and most of them has little time for friendships. I think it is always good to keep in touch with the old friends and talk to them and to keep in contact with them.

To keep our friends we have to be good friends too to them. It is worthwhile yo golfd onto friendships from our youth as we have shared so many past experiences with each other and know each other intimately. I am all for keeping friendship alive

hi there alisalin201314, what you have said is the real thing that happens most of the time. because of each his own family, friends do not seems to see and meet each other. and almost the same thing that happens to me. wishing that i can gain another set of friends this time.

I find it good that my high school batchmates and i have become closer. We now, always go out for dinners together to catch up with each others' lives. Some of us would even go together to watch a nice movie. Isn't that a nice thing about getting old? You now have the money and time to go out with friends.

Many people are facing the same when we are getting older and older.So i'd love to try to stay close with all my friends though sometimes we are busy and losing contacts.But good luck and i believe there are someone that we meant to be good friends.

I see that as well. As friends move on. I miss alot of my older friends here as well...

Yeah, people change and every one of us and each of our friends have also change and have their new life and new routine everyday. We cannot say that our friends will still be our friends in the future. Some of them may ignore us even traitor us. Some will just forget our happy moments together and he or she already met a better friends. So we are very lucky enough if we have a friend that will stay in our side no matter what happened and no matter where we are going through.

Most of those that I went to high school with that are still alive live 500 miles away within 40 miles of the small town where we went to school. It's been 6 years since I've seen any of them. I used to make that long trip at least every other month while my mother was still alive. Now, my husband is too feeble to make the trip, and he can't see any reason for me to go. Not only are my school mates dying off, but all my aunts and uncles are already deceased. I used to say that I had cousins by the dozens, but they are rapidly following their parents to the great beyond.

During childhood, we get a lot of spare time. It is natural to spend that time with friends and enjoy. As we grow into adulthood, we have so many jobs. Thus we forget our friends and our friends forget. Even when we do meet them, it seems we are strangers and we find it difficult even to speak to each other. However, there are certain people who keep contact with old friends and they always hang out together. I too have contact with a few friends and we sometimes hang out together.

As we get older, things change and sometimes you can't or don't keep in touch with your friends, and then when you do see them it is like no time has passed. I am lucky enough to have quite a few friends like this.

Don't you have any contact information about your friend? I also have been away from my friends for a very ling time. not that I really wanted, but having my own family now has restricted me from being with friends. I know that it is such a lame excuse, but that is just what happened. Thank God for technology, that I am able to be reunited with them even through online chatting. We get to chat every once in awhile and be updated with one another's lives.

I would love to get closer to my friends but with kids and being far away from each other it isn't always easy and the other half didn't have kids so they don't have the same interests anymore.

people just grow apart and its no one's fault. things just happen and thats life. people will parade into our lives, touch us and connect with us, but when the time comes that their role in our lives is over, we just have to let them go.