<p>Been 5 years since I graduated HS and now I'm still friends with about 4 people from then. These people I've known since grade school, but I usually just hang out with them when the one comes from Iraq and there is a decent amount of partying to go on. Otherwise they are quite boring and I don't really hang out with them.</p>
<p>To give you perspective though, the few times I go to a local bar and see old people I know, I usually don't hang out with them, because I don't have anything to say to them; but I'm a bit antisocial, so what do I know? Only real reason I'd talk to them is if I'd be interested in catching up with them.</p>
<p>by jr and sr year of HS i had a very tight core group of 14 people (7 guys, 7 girls).. one year later im very happy to say that im just as close and even closer with some of them. most of us go to different colleges along the east coast ranging from NC to Boston. next week (our first week back) most of us and some of our other friends (but not as close) from HS are renting a house in upstate NY for 4 days. i went home this weekend to go see a concert with a couple of my best friends.</p>
<p>we were acutally talking in the car how we think its crazy when people say they arent close to their HS friends anymore. maybe its just us but our bond i would like to think is vitually indestrusticable. we all love college and have friends and fun there.. but when we come back its like nothings ever changed. i jsut dont understand how people can say theyre closer with people in 9 months than people you were close with for 4+ years.</p>
<p>my cousin (who is a HS sr right now) had a really good comment on this. she said everyone has a group of HS friends and college friends, and you can be close to both of them. but there will always be one roup that you think of being your best friends and people you would rather be with. for me, i think it will always be them. </p>
<p>besides for them i tlak to like 2 other people while im at school. then at home we always have parties with our old "affiliates" from HS. wow.. this was really long and hard to understand. guess its hard to explain it to other people. hahah we do awlays say "outsiders" jsut dont understand</p>
<p>I'm still good friends with my junior high ones and don't even go to the same college or high school. I don't have much friends in high school because I'm not too up for socializing in a new school environment.</p>
<p>I'm in the same situation as AUlostchick. THREE of my closest girlfriends from high school now have babies and another one is expecting. Hardly any of them went to college and are working the same jobs that they had in high school. I'm not being condescending or anything, I just can't relate to them anymore.
I spent my whole freshman year away from my hometown (went abroad for Christmas and spring break) and when I came back in May I was really excited to reconnect with my old pals. I called one of them up and she said she was having a barbecue. When I went to her house for the barbecue, she was like, "You have to meet Brock!" and pulled me upstairs. I thought she was going to introduce me to a new boyfriend or something but instead it was a BABY. I had no idea that she had a baby or even a boyfriend before that. Things definitely changed bigtime when I left for school. This summer I am mostly just hanging out by myself, going to my internship, and working full-time at Taco Bell (embarassing, I know).</p>
<p>I see my highschool friends less and less. I've stayed pretty good friends with a couple guys from highschool for my 3 years of Uni so far, but every time I hang out with them it seems like I'm less and less their friend, falling more and more out of the loop. In 2 years or so I probably won't even talk to them anymore. Maybe even less.</p>
<p>I didn't think we would be, but we're actually on better terms now than we used to be. Distance and perspective has helped. I'm sure we'll stay in touch.</p>
<p>"THREE of my closest girlfriends from high school now have babies and another one is expecting."</p>
<p>You should start taking your high school friends to work out at a gym when you're home. I hear the hip abductor machine helps strengthen 'dem leg-closing muscles.</p>
<p>Two years later I still am! granted, I had a lot of "friends" in HS and i shed about half almost immediately. but the true friends i always see over break and we make an effort to keep in touch.</p>
<p>I'm not still good friends with most of my HS buddies, and I'm only 2 hours away from my hometown. People change, and it seems to get harder with time to be able to get together with them.</p>
<p>I actually got closer to my friends after I left high school. Then again, they were more "acquaintances" than "friends." Probably had something to do with becoming a lot more outgoing in college.</p>
<p>My two closest friends are from high school (and earlier). I made some lifelong friends in college, but there's just something comforting about being friends with a few people who have known you for so long.</p>
<p>All my good friends stayed in state while I travelled for college and havent gone home for the summer in 2 years, so they see each other year round and I see them maybe 5 weeks a year. So I've become more distant from them, its hard to stay close when you don't spend time together and are just updating them on your life via phone/internet.</p>
<p>I spent a year at college and during the year actually became closer to my high school friends. Even though we didn't hang out much during the school year, I learned to appreciate my HS friends more. This summer (summer after freshman year) I've been hanging out with my HS friends more than last summer. I think I learned not to take them for granted because my college friends weren't as cool as my HS friends were. Of course, I'm also transferring colleges so that affected my college relationships.</p>
<p>I didn't have a lot of close friends in high school. I hung out with a small group. The only one I still talk to is my closest high school friend, who I speak with a few times a year. I've tried keeping in contact with others at first, but they weren't interested. People move on. I'm Facebook friends with most of them and keep up with their lives that way.</p>
<p>My best friend during my high school years was a friend from elementary school. We had a falling out at the start of my freshman year of college, I think because of her jealousy issues. After years of me calling her and her not responding, I gave up. We still keep in contact through each others blogs, but never really talk anymore.</p>
<p>Friends come and go. It may surprise you which friends you'll grow away from, but it's normal.</p>
<p>I had a small, but close group of friends from HS, who went mostly to OOS schools. I found that after Freshman year, we were still somewhat close, but Sophmore year, we began to grow apart a little bit, because of people staying at school over the summer, going abroad etc.</p>
<p>Out of my group of friends I was the only one who moved OOS (West Coast to Midwest). So I’m pretty removed from just about everything that happens between them when I’m gone, which means I miss a fair amount of drama but also the occasional birthday/concert/trip to Disneyland. During school, my contact with HS friends outside of Facebook is pretty much nonexistent. </p>
<p>That being said, I have a blast with them during the summer, and aside from that we’ve made New Years our big get-together. I am not as close with some as I used to be, but that is part of life. It’s not the end of the world. </p>
<p>Keep in mind, though, I’m only a junior in college, so things may change.</p>