I've recently reconnected with friends I went to school/college with on Facebook and it's been lovely getting to know them all again and hear about what they've been up to over the years. I got married and had my first child at quite a young age, most of the people my age were still partying and clubbing it up back then! As my priorities in life had changed, I drifted away from a lot of my old mates and tended to make friends with other young mums as we seemed to understand each other more. But then as I'm naturally quite an introverted person anyway, maybe there's a chance we would have drifted apart anyway, as I have to admit back then especially without the lovely social media we have now, I wasn't always the best at staying in touch.
But I think it's amazing when I hear about these people who have been in each other's lives for decades! It's great to have such a strong friendship and have kept up with each other's lives all these years. I'm in my forties now so you never know, there's still time for me to have such a friendship. :)
What about any of you? Do you still keep in touch regularly with the friends you made at school/college/uni or even your very first job?
Oh definitely. Keeping in touch with people is actually one of my special skills. Although I don't see them all the time, I still keep in touch with school friends and that includes friends from primary school. A lot of the people I went to school with are still in the area I grew up in so when I do venture home, I make plans to meet up with people. And even if I don't I'm sure to run into at least one person I know! I do interact with a lot of my primary and secondary school friends on Facebook. It's better than nothing in this busy age that we live in.
I absolutely do! Mandy who's on here was my best friend at secondary school and we are still the best of friends. And of course there's a lot of people on here who I grew up with or went to school with - Angel included! And then as a lot of you have also said, I do have loads of old school mates on Facebook. I don't really see them unless I run into them somewhere but we do exchange messages at certain time of the year, like Christmas for instance.
You better believe I do! In fact I'm delighted to say that two of the ladies that were in my year are actually now living right here in Sydney! Obviously with me living in Australia, I don't get to see my friends from home as often as I would like. But we do keep in regular contact. It's amazing how many of my old school friends I still keep in touch with considering how long ago school was! Most people are lucky if they keep in touch with just three or four. While most people have moved away from my hometown - can't say I blame them - when I do go home to see family, I do spot quite a few familiar faces.
I do as a matter of fact keep in touch with a lot of my friends from high school. Some were even bridesmaids at my wedding! I still spend a lot of time in my home state, and my family still live in the same place where I grew up so I see a lot of the people I grew up with on a regular basis. I also keep in touch with the people I grew up with when I lived overseas but they all live in various places so I don't really see them. Just touch base with them every now and again on FB or Insta.
I'm from a small town in Montana. I had an upbringing that was kind of typical for a young girl growing up in rural Montana. Girl scouts, dance, gymnastics, musical theatre, cheerleading. So as a result of all these activities I had tons of friends. I now live in the Pacific Northwest so I don't see anyone that I knew from home on a regular basis, but I am still in contact with many of them via social media, and for the ones who never moved away, I do still see them when I go home to see my mom. I wouldn't say that I'm really close friends with any of them. My closest friends are the people I met at college. But it's always nice to see familiar faces and talk a while when I'm home.
Yeah I do but I not a hole bunch. I keep in touch with a couple of the kids that I used to play with in our old neighborhood, and a few from high school. I would say that most of the people I am still friends with that I have known from childhood are the kids of family friends who I have grown up with. We don't always meet up for dinner or anything like that but we do see each at certain family events and stuff. And of course find out what we're all getting up to via Facebook!
I'm not so bad at keeping in touch with people if I may say so myself! The person I've known the longest is my best friend from primary school who I've known since we were six and we're still great mates. I have a handful of friends from secondary school and sixth form, and my girl gang who I've known for well over twenty years, I met during my first day at uni and we've been mates ever since - not to mention a bad influence on each other! 😂
I think I'm in touch with all the people I want to be in touch with, and I'm very proud that I've been able to maintain such long standing friendships. I would however like to make contact with some of the kids who lived in my old neighbourhoods but I don't have a clue where to start looking for them or have any mutual friends so it will be a bit tricky tracking them down. And also some of the people I worked with in some of my much earlier jobs. But I'm grateful for the friends that I do have, and I love that with some of them, we really do go back a long way.
I absolutely do keep in touch with childhood friends. In fact quite a few of them are my very best friends. When you get to this age (I'm two years off my 50th!) and you've been friends for this long, these become very special and close friendships and I honestly couldn't imagine my life without them.
I have lots of my primary and secondary school friends on social media but I'd say it's a small proportion of those that I'm actually real proper friends with as opposed to just Facebook friends. We are in regular contact, we meet up as often as we can, we know what's going on in each other's lives, and we talk about anything and everything. We all have children as well, and we love that the kids have all become firm friends too.
I'm also good friends with many that I went to university with as well, not to mention friends I met while working abroad, and while we do make an effort to stay in touch, because we're based all over the country - all over the world even - meeting up is a lot more difficult and requires a lot more planning! But as long as we're in each other's lives that's what counts.
Whenever I go home to see my mum, I do bump into quite a few people that I used to go to school with - primary and secondary. Many of them I do follow on social media and every now and again I'll drop them a quick message. But I wouldn't say we are close friends or anything like that but we get on whenever we meet and make a bit of chitchat. A few of my closest friendships go back to early adulthood when I first started work and we're still good mates now and make a real effort to catch up regularly. I'm part of the vintage community and the majority of my close friendships are with other vintage enthusiasts - people I have loads in common with. I don't believe in maintaining friendships just because I knew them when we were ten. I prefer to be friends with someone I'm more on the same page with.
Over the years a lot of friends have come and gone which is to be expected when you get to this age. I'd say that the people that I'm the closest too are the bunch of friends that I made at university, and I'm so happy that they're still in my life now. They were there during all kinds of major milestones in my life - moving to London, getting married, having my kids, setting up my business. I can't see us ever losing touch and we'll definitely be friends for life. There's also three people from secondary school that I'm also very close too. There are quite a lot of people on my Facebook from secondary school but we're not close - just Facebook friends who every now and again, I exchange pleasantries with.