discussion Are you still friends with anyone from elementary, middle or highschool?

[Archetype]

With two of them, yes.  We message each other on and off, but get together a few times per year and it’s the best.  It’s difficult to find people to relate to at this point, they’re really the only ones who understand what we went through to get where we all are today.

[JonginBey]

Any friendships I made in elementary were all over by the end of our first year in middle school (for those that attended the same middle school as me anyway. For those that didn't, the friendships ended after we graduated from elementary). Zero friends left from middle school. All ended after we graduated. I did see some of them during high school, but since I had moved away during my freshmen year, they all made new friends during that year I was gone. I have one friend (well, acquaintance at this point), left from high school. We met our junior year, though we didn't attend the same school, so I don't know if that counts. Any close friends that I have now, I met in college or during the 6.5 years that I've been at my job.

[Sergi91]

I’m still friends with my best friend who I met in 5th grade.

Im also friends with my friend I met in 10th grade Algebra class! 

[bestfiction]

Yeah, I have some friends from school. Funnily enough, I truly bonded with them right after the graduation

[Lady Claire]

I used to have a friend from high school, we graduated in 2012... she was my best friend. But we had an argument back in Feb while drunk and said **** to each other. We haven't talked ever since and i don't think we ever will again, unfortunately. I know, it's stupid to end a friendship like this just bc of that but it is what it is.

[Chaos Angel]

I’m in college now

 

None from elementary school

One from middle school

Three from high school

 

Right now in college I have a handful of close friends that I can see myself keeping after graduation but I’ve learned less friends stay than you think. I will be happy to retain just a couple from this phase. Life changes, we change as people, some people are good for us in different parts of our life and then it’s time to part ways. It’s proven quite difficult for me to have people there as constants throughout it all but that’s fine.

Edited April 4, 2023 by Chaos Angel

[Mellark]

I only stay in touch with like a couple but social media really just keeps me in the loop on how they are doing nowadays. I lost contact with some, but honestly, that's life. 

[Euterpe]

No, none.

[GentleEarthquake]

No. Most of them were dumb, mean to me and always spoke **** about me when I was not around. 

[Venice B]

Most of my best friends are from elementary and middle school 

[MonsterJohn]

No, they all died of old age

[Khal]

Yes. I think I'm actually still in contact with more HS friends than I am with uni friends

[Saddy]

Only with 2 people

[Gorjesspazze9]

I have some friends I grew up with  from my elementary and highschool on socials. But I don’t actually hang out or talk with them. I don’t even stay in touch with anybody from college…. But that’s more because I’m a recluse

[Bacardo Royale]

Nah I once tried reaching out to  childhood friends on facebook and they either ignored me or ended up ghosting me  It hurt my feelings back then but I'm not interested anymore

[Invisibility]

I have more friends from 4th-7th grade I keep up with than college ones  I'd say by volume elementary-middle > high school > uni

 

My two best friends, one I met in 4th grade and the other in high school 

Edited April 5, 2023 by Invisibility

[FreeXone]

 

I still have people I consider friends from middle school and high school on like instagram and Facebook but we rarely interact in public. Lol

 

they all live in other cities

 

Uni friends yes I still hang with most of them but because we are all in the same scene in the city 

Edited April 5, 2023 by FreeXone

[Daddy]

**** no lmfao

[Specter]

No, for sad reasons no one wants to hear about I suppose :(

[stipidstid]

I had my very justified doubts initially. But after last night, a resounding yes.  

 

I physically haven’t seen any of them within the timespan of 4-11 years. But after our visages reminded us of our immovable fellowships, we hit it off like post-time never even existed. In short, a pure, true friend will intrinsically always remain just that; no matter what taints and transpires in this ailing actuality.

 

The experience had me binging this Disney Channel classic all damn night, TBH:

 

 

 

[Young Volcanoes]

only one girl from high school and we're best friends 

the funny thing is that we didn't even speak that much before HS ended and reconnected after her relative passed away

[Gladiator]

Nope! I am only friends with people I have met in my adult life, with the exception of a handful of people I met while I was in high school, but not at or from it. I do greatly miss a friend I made in middle school who moved away, who was probably my best best friend growing up. I reached out to him randomly about a year ago.

Edited May 21, 2023 by Gladiator

[wanderlust]

well, not friends, but I've been a teacher to 12-14 year olds, and im afraid to say that homophobia is on the rise.. it's a big problem and they're almost never punished for it

Edited May 21, 2023 by wanderlust

[CBC]

I don't really keep up with people from elementary unfortunately as our lives diverged but I'll say hello if I see them around. I do keep up with quite a few people from middle school specially those that were on my class in highschool. I hang out frequently with around 5 people and on birthdays with 5-8 more. I keep up with my university group but they're all a bunch of anti-social nerds so it's hard to get together lol

[LoveInStereo]

Nah. I moved, my family sold our house & I had a traumatic childhood. As much as I have love in my heart for the friends I made then & think fondly of them sometimes, I had to leave my past in the past. Can’t say I regret it