Just wondering, how many of you guys (and gals) still see your high school friends after being out of HS for a long time.

I've been hanging out with the same guys for like 4 years now (since we were Sophomores). They're probably the best friends I'll ever have, and are just awesome, they go to college up in Duluth now, which is like 165 miles from me, but I still make it up there 1-2 times a month, and during the summer months, when they're on vacation, we'd hang out daily. But now they've signed a lease on a house up in Duluth so they most likely won't be able to come back home this summer, which is a bummer, but on the plus side that means more road trips! This is the end of an era, but what a blast it's been!

So basically, I know that we'll grow apart as the years go on, but it's a part of life, and everyone goes thru it. I'm just wondering how many of you still keep contact with your old friends from the "good ol" days of HS.

I think I'll put Springsteen's "Glory Days" on now and sit back and reminisce. :thumbsup:

i see people from high school i knew BEFORE high school as well.

thats about it though

Some high school buddies and I have been having coffee and conversation every Saturday morning for the last forty years. We take turns hosting.

I see them every day, because I still have a semester left haha

We'll all split up soon enough though, graduation at the end of May. Lots of people I know are going to state colleges like ISU, Western, Northern, and Eastern Illinois. Some are going out of state like Iowa, Colorado, New York, Wisconsin, and Virginia. 2 guys I know are going to play Divsion I football, one is going to Michican and the other Notre Dame. Also tons of people are just going to community colleges, and will still be living at home for a year or two. I'm going to DePaul in Chicago and know of only 2 other people that are going there for sure. I know there's a bunch of people I will definitely keep in touch with, while others I could really care less about haha. High school has been a good experience for me, and shared with many other people.

No one in high school. I made and kept most of my friends in college, and we still are pretty tight as friends, despite being all over the country.

JRau in central Iowa

I went bowling the other night with some buddies of mine, one of them I've known since first grade. Top that!

Great question. Now a Junior in college, I actually never see anyone from high school anymore, aside from the occasional MySpace message.

EVERY time I have a break, I always intend to get up with a person or two while I'm home, but somehow always fail to do so. Guess once you move on and are in a different world, per say, it's just not as much of a priority. And on another part, I just don't care.

I did, however, pretty consistently always meet up with a best friend from elementary and middle school every time we'd be in the same town, but I've been kind of straying from that anymore too, unintentionally. Matter of fact, I should give him a call...

I still see my kindergarten buddies, we were all tight. We have get togethers every year. My college roommate is my best friend to this day...Ive been really blessed with all the good people around me.


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Well, considering it's been 20+ years and I live 2,000 miles from my hometown, no I don't see them. I went to my 10- and 20-year reunions and had a good time, but I'm not close to any of my old high school friends. I exchange Christmas cards and an occasional e-mail with a couple of them, but that's about it.

I do have one friend that I've known since first grade. Haven't seen him in several years, but we still keep in touch via e-mail. After 35 years (top that Danbuc!), the bond is still there, but our lives have gone in very different directions. I wouldn't say we're close, but we're still friends and always will be.

I have four close friends that I consider adopted brothers. We've been friends for 23, 18, 14 and 3 years, respectively. Unfortunately, none of them are local. I left two behind when I moved to Oregon from Phoenix and one moved to San Francisco 10 years ago. The fourth was local, but he finished school and got a job in eastern Washington (almost Idaho, really), so I haven't seen him since last summer.

Although we keep in touch by phone, e-mail and IM, the distance does make it hard (and I miss doing things with them). But when we do see each other, we pick right up where we left off. These guys will be my friends for life.

I've learned that with friends, quality is way more important than quantity. There's nothing I wouldn't do for these guys, and I think they'd do the same.

One more thing to add: My Dad, who turns 70 this year, has a good friend from high school that he still sees on occasion. When I was a kid, we'd sometimes go visit Dan and his wife Stephanie in Houston. They didn't have any kids of their own, but they treated me and my sisters like we were their guests as much as our parents were. That really left a strong impression, and I still exchange Christmas cards and occasional e-mails with them. They're my model for how to treat my friend's kids.

ive seen (since i graduated) about 8 of my friends from high school. and all those were at a party. most of the people i graduated with i was friends with. i hardly ever see any of them. well a couple i have worked their car wreck scenes and they were all shocked to see me, or at the hospital if they had their grandparents there or something... but for the most part i would have to say no.

I mostly hang out with people from college, but I still see my high school friends every once in a while......

Since age will seem to be the great Leveler here, guys like Koz and Sandy and Ranger and I may have the "oldest" friends here. I attended my 35th HS reunion back in October, and we sat with the guys I've known since junior high - we were in a band together for several years and I still see the ones who live nearby. There were people there who I went through all 12 years of primary education with, so I guess you could say that I have "friends" that I've known since 1959. We may only see each other every couple of years, but many of us stay in touch.

All in all, I'd say that if you can get through life with two or three good friends who stick around, you've done well - 40 or so years is a long time to be friends with someone you're not sleeping with.. :)

I grew up in a town of about 7500 and settled about 2 hours away. I seldom see anyone that I grew up with. Most of us who went to college settled elsewhere.

I seldom get back to San Antonio, Texas where I graduated in '73. I hooked up with some of my old buddies at our 30 year reunion, it's the only one I've gone to. They sure got old :hmm:
Like most guys, I don't care to chat over the phone. The internet has certainly made keeping in touch feasable. Take advantage of it as you go your separate ways. I keep in touch with my old Marine buddies the same way. I found them on a Marine website.

Semper Fi

I can only wonder if I'll remember them as the years pass, I'm sure I will for the most part, but only time will tell. I gotta go to work soon, but after I get home tonight, I'll post a pic of all of us and give a little more information about where they're all planning to go after college.

I see 0 haha I'm about 7 hours away from all of them. I do keep in touch with 2 people. One is a guy who lives 5 minutes away from my house in PA, loves his cars and fire so we get along. Another is a girl who goes to Duquesne (where Jay goes to school) so I see her and chat up every so often online; we played soccer together for 4 years.

Ive had alot of my friends since I was six or seven years old. We are very close and Id put my life on the line for any of them. Yall wouldnt beleive some of the crazy sh*t weve seen and done!

I stayed in town and went to a 2 year school while almost all of them went away for college, some out of state. ALL of them moved back home after school. Des Moines ALWAYS draws people back. It really is a fantastic city. All of the benefits of a big city with very few of the problems. I still hang out with guys I first met in kindergarten! Alot of us will be friends till we die and I view most of them to be like my brothers/family. Couple pics:


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Mark, Matt, Me, Jeremy

These are 3 of my best friends. Ive been friends with mark since I was 13, Matt since I was 7, and Jeremy since I was 5.

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Me, Jermey, Mark, and Kory. Been friends with Kory since I was 11.


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Bob and I. been friends with Bob since I was 7 or 8.

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Me, Mark, and Pat. Been friends with Pat since I was 6 or 7.

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Tim Wayne Gacy!!! Been friends with him since I was like 14. This guy is a character to say the least. Thats my CTS.

Ok that was alot of pics! What can I say, Im proud of the AWESOME friends I have!

I don't see anyone from high school. My best friend has been my best friend since 9th grade. My best friend before that lived across the street from me, but the older I got the more I realized he was the kind of person I didn't want to be around. My best friend is my age, 21, but my other two closest friends are 24 and 26. We've just always been friends, I guess it works out well. I don't have alot of friends, but the few I do have I'm pretty close to. Of course I have friends I see less, like Chad; he and I get together every few months for dinner to talk about cars and such, always a good time. I guess everyone is different regarding their friends, some people have hundreds of friends, some people have less than a handful.

I see a bunch everyday, as they came to Binghamton University with me. My best friends are still home, and I see them when I go home for breaks. We've all been best friends since junior year of high school and we hope that doesn't change.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes I laugh... at them.

I don't see them anymore and I don't have any desire to, either. Same with college people. I didn't really like them then, why would I want to associate with them now? I'm not the same person anymore, but from the looks of things, most of them are.

I have most fortunately kept all
my good friends who I met in
Grade nine (9) and before.
I am friends with my grade 2
teacher; and, when she comes to
my bigger parties she sees a dozen
ex students.
When I was married it seemed that I
had actually exchanged boyhood blackeyes
with half of my large wedding party.
I don't trust many of my post secondary
and post graduate school acquaintances.
I kept a few cool drinking buddies
from that era; however, I rarely mix them
with my original crew.

Best Regards,

TomDeville:cool2:
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What is this "high school friend" thing you speak of?

Was a total introvert in high school. Still am, only since high school I've learned that some humans actually hope for or even need a certain amount of interaction, so these days I muster up the energy to create some.

I don't have many close friends, but I have a lot of distant friends, I've been very happy with the group I've been so I really saw no need to branch out and "outsource" my friendship, lol!

This was us up at my Evan's cabin a few days before our graduation ceremony in June of '05. I think this picture was taken on 6/8/05.
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From the left to right, we've got Josh, who I've known for either two or three years, he's a lot like me, likes classic rock and american cars and a lot of other stuff I do. He drives a '93 Century. Kevin is standing next to him, holding the lighter fluid, he's my best friend ever, no one will replace him. He's got that same sort of sense of humor I do and is quite clever and funny, he's got a huge knowledge of most anything and can be very useful in any situation..he's an awesome person even though he is an art nerd of sorts and loves Toyota....He drives a '98 Ranger.. Next to him is Jason, aka Maki (his last name) Maki is one of the most dynamic, against the grain individuals I've ever met, he's kinda like a real life Kramer...just not as funny, he drives the '93 Maxima. Standing next to him is Charlie, who is an old friend of Evan (not pictured because he took the pic) but Charlie moved away to Texas before I met any of them and I don't know him very well, but he's a cool guy. And lastly is me. Oh by the way, that's the '98 Wrangler Evan had before he bought his Cherokee last month.

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Here's another pic, taken about the same time at Evan's graduation party...I think this pic was taken about a week before the previous pic. L-R we have Me, Kevin, Evan (awesome guy, probably my 2nd best friend, loves Jeeps, knows a ton about cars, just an awesome guy) Sean (whom I haven't really talked to in like 4-5 years, we used to hang out a ton though), Mike (don't really know him much, sort of a friend of Evan's) and Maki again.

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This was us at Evan's house for the '06 New Years. L-R: Mike, Maki, Sean, Me, Evan, Kevin. That Champagne was good.

I think that's all the ones I have on my comp, I need to take some more.

I really don't see any of my highschool friends since many of them have changed dramatically after highschool and I choose not to see them. I am currently working on a relationship with my best friend from highschool and we're starting to hang out more, but other than that I really don't see anyone from highschool. Everyone went their own ways. Right now I have a few close friends and I'm fine with that, but I'll be going through another change since I'll be graduating from college this spring.

In high school I had 4 main buddies, after high school 2 moved about 100mi away and never came up to ABQ anymore (there's no good reason for me to go to their town because it's a shithole... I'd have gone if invited anyway though.) One of them, my former best friend completely cut off contact with me, and even though he lives about a block away I haven't seen him since, which may be a good thing since I'm tempted to kick his ass.

Anyway I always chill with one high school friend, we plan to start a business together actually, and in the past couple weeks I've started hanging out with another high school guy even though I haven't really seen/talked to him more than once in the past 1.5 years.

I guess I'm quite lucky than, none of my best friends have changed at all since I started hanging around with them in the fall of '02. Maybe that's because they (the ones that went off to college in Duluth) stuck together thru all these years, living with each other up there, but there have been new people introduced into the group since they've went up there, and I've hung around them, and they're cool people, but it's not like their taking my spot in the group, nor am I the forgotten one holding down the fort in Eagan. They have their new friends up there, and they've told me that they will not be able to take my spot in the group. So as far as I'm concerned, I'm rock solid with them, but I am concerned about us drifting apart as time goes on...I know that's the truth, but what a sad reality it is.

Anybody attending their HighSchool re-unions every 5 years? I find it interesting to see everybody getting but me. I find it interesting to see what they did with their lives.

its always funny to see how people have changed so much or at least their true colors come out

the cool kids now work menial retail jobs, the nerds make boatloads of cash and drive redline ctsv's and the jocks are police officers

on a serious note I actually had fun at my 5yr reunion

old walls broke down without the stereo types of hs

shacked up with the hot cheerleader that wouldn't give me the time of day in 99

So as far as I'm concerned, I'm rock solid with them, but I am concerned about us drifting apart as time goes on...I know that's the truth, but what a sad reality it is.I think you'll find that unless you see each other on a regular basis, you will drift apart. That's just reality. Phone, e-mail and IM are great for keeping in contact, but that's not the same as seeing each other and doing things together.

That said, even though my closest friends all live far away now, when we do see each other, it's like we were never apart. The friendships are so strong that we just pick up where we left off.

As for high school reunions, I've gone to both my 10 and 20. It was interesting to see how much some people had changed and how much others hadn't. I was a geek in high school (probably still am), but all the stupid shit about the social pecking order, cliques, etc. just didn't matter. The people I liked then I still liked, and the people I didn't (or who didn't like me) weren't jerks anymore.

What I thought was sad was so many had never even left Abilene, a city of 120,000 in the middle of nowhere West Texas. At least half of the people at both reunions were still local; the rest came from Dallas, Houston or other larger cities around Texas. Less than 10 came from out of state, me being one of them.

It's one thing to stay somewhere because you like it (I hated it, which is why I got the hell out of Dodge as fast as I could). But it's another thing to just stay somewhere because that's all you've ever known. You couldn't pry me out of Oregon with a crowbar, but I've travelled all over the U.S., and I chose to live here.

Two of my friends that I met in high school are now my best friends. They were in my wedding. I see one weekly and the other about once a month. I don't see anyone else from before high school. It just kinda happens-- people go separate directions and they fade away. SOme by choice, but usually not much of an explanation.
I planned to keep in touch with a couple others and really thought it would happen... but like I said no explanation as to why.

I also married my high school sweetheart, so I see her everyday. :)

I will run into a couple every now and then but for the most part I stay in contact with 1 maybe 2 of them

I moved 20 times so far in my life, that left me losing friends every year until I got to high school then I couldn't make one to save my life.
I had about 3 "friends" in high school, my best friend got mad at me after high school because of something really stupid and now he refuses to talk to me. I moved a few more times after that and pretty much lost touch with everyone, now I live 1,500 miles away after having lived over 2,000 miles away for 6 years.
I did attend my 20th reunion last summer. I was really amazed at how worthless most of my classmates had REMAINED. Yes even though it has been 20 years, more time than we had to mature to where we were in high school, most of them had remained the selfish self centered pompous morons they were back then. It is really sad too because Springfield is not a very big town but to talk to these people you would think they were the masters of the universe.
I was really nervous about looking okay so I lost 20 pounds and went just to realize that most of them had gained 40. The girls that were hot in high school looked pretty tore up. Leatherized skin, extra chunks hanging here and there, bad hair, tacky clothes. It was really sad.

Now all that being said, I ran into some guys that were great too. I found one of my friends from high school has Parkinsons disease, some have been killed, and I managed to get back in touch with a girl I really liked who's mom commited suicide when we were sophomores. She had a pretty rough life after that but she found a great husband who takes good care of her and she has 3 sons.

I have one really good friend that I talk to several times a year but he went to a "rival" high school. We actually went to church together. He got involved in drugs for a while back then but he really straightened his life out. Got married, had 2 kids, got a divorce, got married and had one more kid.
I would consider him amongst my best friends of all time. I always try to see him when I go to visit my folks.... but I digress.

The older I get, the less I care about high school days. I hated every one really. I liked my teachers more than my classmates. Most of them have small town fat heads.

I have a few HS friends that I am still very close with. My best friend has been my best friend since 1985. We're both 32 now.