<p>I've grown really close with a bunch of friends, and these are people I would consider lifelong friends. We're all definitely keeping in touch, but that also worries me. You see, i'm the only one of my friends who is really moving far away(going to Maine, we all live in NY). The rest of them are staying in or around the city. I fear that they'll all get so close without me, or even worse, they'll forget about me. </p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, i'm extremely excited to make new, also lifelong, friends in college, but the thought of leaving behind these people and our relationships changing makes me very sad. Was anyone else the sole out-of-state mover? How did that turn out? Thanks.</p>
<p><strong>Sigh</strong> that's life my man. I also moved this year from new york to Virginia and left some really close friends(at my senior year of high school!!!). I keep in touch through the phone, aim, etc., but i have this weird feeling were all eventually going to lose touch. You can visit them and stuff, but the sad fact of the matter is high school friends normally don't last a lifetime:( Don't worry though you'll probably make great friends in college, and those do tend to last longer. Good luck in college!</p>
<p>I'm leaving all my friends this fall (crossing the pacific ocean and many other oceans i guess.. to the US) and all my friends (that I consider life-long friends also) are attending the same college.
Im finding this really sad also but at the same time, Im so excited to make new friends!
But I'm not exactly worried that they'll all become really close together and exclude me out or anything.. I know this sounds really stuck up of me, but I have made quite a positive impact on their lives so I know that they'll have a special place left in their hearts for me (and vice versa).
If you feel that they are your life long friends, they should feel the same way about you, and will not forget you :)</p>
<p>Thats the same situation for me. Most of my friends (aside from one) are staying around where we are right now. I'm going away 6 hours, so when I come back it might be a little weird. But hopefully things will be okay, they're the ones constantly asking me if I'll forget about them, instead of the other way around.</p>
<p>I very well could've faced that problem. I'm going to school in Massachusetts but I'm from Illinois. No one from my school ever considers going farther than Iowa or Wisconsin. Fortunately, my two closest friends are going to Boston University (I'm going to Brandeis, 10 miles away), and my twin sister's going to Dartmouth. She'll be close enough. Our entire lunch table is just relocating. :p</p>
<p>If you guys really are close and you value each others' friendship, I wouldn't worry about it. We do live in an age of telephones, e-mail, and facebook, after all. I can't speak from my own experience, but I have two friends who moved from Florida to New York from college and they're still best friends with their old group.</p>
<p>I think how you maintain your friendships really varies on a lot of things. You might find that you don't want to keep your friends. I went to Brandeis from Georgia while all of my friends either went to UGA or spent every weekend at UGA. They all turned into huge partiers (even though for some of them- like my best friend- you'd never had guessed that she would turn out that way even the summer before college) while I didn't drink at all the entire year. It ended up being a huge division for us and we don't speak. It's kind of sad, but at the same time, my friends haven't grown as people yet because they only hang out with each other. I got the unique experience of being out completely on my own, and that was a catalyst for change.</p>
<p>Keeping in contact over the phone and Facebook helps, but don't expect things not to change.</p>
<p>I also sympathise. I life in Florida (AKA: Hell), and moving to my dream city: NYC. None of my close friends are. At least not from around here. One amasing this is that one of my best friends lives in NY and we're gonna go to school together up there. But if she wasn't going... II don't know what I'd do...</p>
<p>Just keep in contact, and be sure to meet up over breaks.</p>