Old School Friends.

[Meryl]

Do you still keep in touch? I have 5 school friends who I still keep in touch with and meet a few times a year.  One of them I've known since I was 5...so she's like family to me. We don't live in each other's pockets, and we may not speak to each other for months, but we both know that we're here for each other...no matter what. And when we do meet, it's like we talked yesterday.  No awkwardness.  We carry on where we left off last time.

[Pearson]

I have a few on social media that I graduated with, however I never intend on meeting up with anyone, or even going to Illinois for a reunion.

[Shady]

Very occasionally exchange Facebook comments with 2 of them, and another one maybe remembers I exist every couple of years and sends me a random text only to stop replying when it becomes a conversation. It’s not a period of my life I’m bothered about remembering and there’s no one I’m especially bothered about keeping in touch with.

[wildmaven]

I have a very dear friend whom I've known for 50 years. We just spoke yesterday, in fact.

[HoudiniDerek]

I think it cycles. There are some that I have known most of my life. We go through hills and valleys of talking to each other.

For the most part, I have a couple of friends in my inner circle and they are relatively recent (last 20 years or so).

[Syko Nachoman]

I actually recently connected with a high school friend (after about ten years) last month and have been planning to get in touch with a few more. It's fun to catch up with everyone.

[Artemis]

I do. There's a group of about nine of us that get together for Thanksgiving, Christmas, things like that to exchange gifts. Smaller sub groups of us that live closer together will sometimes go see movies or do things together more often, but it's nice to have that one group that still gets together in person all this time after.

There are a lot more I keep in looser touch with on Facebook. It's kind of nice. I actually really liked high school and most of the people I met there so I'm glad we do this.

[Søren]

I don't keep in touch with anyone from school. they didn't really want to talk to me then can't think they will now but I know many are on facebook so guess if I ever join I could contact them.

[Ameline]

I didn't have any friends in real life. That's why I spent most of my time here. So no there isn't anyone I keep in touch with offline.

[coolcoolcool]

Childhood friends, not really. I'm getting married this year and only one of them is coming to the wedding and I have only talked to him in the last couple years a handful of times and only briefly.

I have also moved to another continent in the last couple years though and I still make a point of talking to my closer friends from before I moved. We have a massive group chat which helps quite a lot.

I don't really think maintaining relationships is all that important though. You can mostly pick up where you left off if your life situation disposes you to interacting with someone again. Although, family is a bit different, for me anyway, in that respect.

[bestforums]

Yes I do have old friends. We are still talking. Most of them are my friends from school.