Do you ever miss highschool friends?

[SherriBerry]

Jim, I'm sorry to hear so many of your old friends from highschool have passed away so young! I'm still close with my best friend from elementary school, but she is married and lives almost 4,000km away, so even when we visit it isn't the same as when she lived a couple doors down or we roomed together at university. I think there is a reason we stay close with some of our friends and not with others. People change so much and while shared history can be great, I've found that most friends became adults I have nothing in common with now. One of my former close friends found religion in her 20s and likes to talk about being saved by Jesus - a bit too much. I guess I would rather be friends with people I can relate to for who they are now.

It is so much harder to make friends as an adult and have those close, trusting friendships. My close friends are now all married and consider their husbands their best friends - and are spread out across three continents! I'm considering deleting my Facebook account - most of the people on there I knew almost 20 years ago. I didn't know them that well then and I don't really know them at all now. We're just familiar faces. Next year is my 20th highschool reunion and that will be a good weekend to say hi and catch up, but then we'll go our separate ways and that will be that. I miss the fun we had as kids, but I think what I miss more is the feeling we had of our lives just beginning and having our futures ahead of us. Good grief, 20 years!

[hoagiepete]

Growing up in a small midwestern town, my closest friends remain those that have been so since I was five. We remained friends through high school, college and now the real world. Their parents were like additional sets of parents for me and their siblings, siblings of mine. Weird I guess.

I have some great college friends and new friends where I now live, but none are as close as my childhood buds. We live 100's of miles apart, but still get together a couple of times a year.

We raised a little hell, but turned out ok I guess...a retired Air Force Col., city administrator, professional photographer, Realtor, Navy Diver, Attorney and a company executive.

Forgot to mention...we're all now on Facebook. Who'd of thunk it.

[DrFU]

Having a New Year's Eve-Eve dinner coming up with the ya-ya siterhood from high school in the Dallas area. We've done this the last 5 years; it's really fun; age and maturity seems to have improved us all.

Facebook, on the other hand, completely creeped me out; deleted my account after 2 weeks. My rock n roll friends, high school friends, work colleagues, family, and random people I barely know just do not all need to be in the same place, and I do NOT need all that information about their lives and friends and friends' friends ...

[walkslikealady]

I signed up to Facebook for about a month and then canceled the account. Located some old acquaintances and I think I'll leave them in my past.

The high school cheerleader/prom queen who contacted me on Facebook is now an addict of the Facebook wall and reality shows...I hate reality shows. One guy that I spent maybe an hour's total talking-timein our 12 years of school contacted me and asked me to write back...seems he's divorced now and retired.

My former best buddy and I have switched places...she's become uber-religious and I'm pretty much an atheist now...so I'll leave her in my past.

[Peartree12249]

I miss none of my high school friends. I have nothing in common with them anymore. Does that make me cold?

If it does, than I must be cold as well. The thought of reconnecting with people that all went in separate directions over 25 years ago is of no interest to me whatsoever.

Couldn't agree more. Hated high school. Worse 3 years of my life. I purposely picked a college where none of my high school friends were attending. I just wanted to start over. I have 0 interest in reconnecting.

[Triple S]

The only ones I wish I'd stayed in contact with were 3 dorky guys who shared a multi-million dollar lottery prize a few years ago - when I saw them on the news it made me kinda wish I hadn't ignored them quite so much in high school . Kidding aside - good for them and it was interesting to see what their lives were all about so many years later.

[jrnyman28]

I just had one of those magic Facebook moments the other day. I finally found one of my HS friends that I had not been able to find all these years (22). And once we started talking I coulda kept talking all night long. It was really cool!

I keep in touch with a coupla HS friends but it's those that I can't find that make me nostalgic!