Friends

[upthetigers]

How many friends do you have that you've known pretty much your whole life, like since kindergarten or primary school?

I'm curious. Can you count them on one hand?

 

[Suzie-Q]

Most of my friends are from primary and high school. My now brother-in-law was my first friend from preschool (and I have few others).

 

[hank37w]

You are so lucky, some people don't have friends.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7463717076130155794

 

[innsaneink]

Im still in contact with one girl from kindergarten (known each other almost 60 yrs) and several others from primary school but only online...we have had school reunions though

Most my mates from high school are dead or in jail

 

[Bellend]

Im still in contact with one girl from kindergarten (known each other almost 60 yrs) and several others from primary school but only online...we have had school reunions though

Most my mates from high school are dead or in jail

i two mates i have known a very long time, my other very close mates have a revolving door policy with the correction system.

 

[Odessa]

Good thread

 

[liltiger]

Only 1 mate like that who iv known from preschool days.

 

[upthetigers]

Only 1 mate like that who iv known from preschool days.

At school you make friends through convenience. Once you leave high school you discover who your real friends are.

 

[Spartan117]

Heaps of friends.

Mine originate from church community, relatives and work colleagues.

I have been blessed with the ability to create deep and loyal relationships.

 

[liltiger]

At school you make friends through convenience. Once you leave high school you discover who your real friends are.

Yeah mate, life takes people in diffrent directions and everyone kicks on.

 

[NT_Tiger]

"Find the light, and know your friends don't mind just how you grow." Don Vliet

 

[Winston Churchill]

Shit show for dolts. Seinfeld was much better.

 

[Odessa]

How many friends do you have that you've known pretty much your whole life, like since kindergarten or primary school?

I'm curious. Can you count them on one hand?

Alot of things in life is pure bull but Family and Friends are the most important things Next up is Time

Time is your most valuable asset how you spend your time and how you sell your time you can never get time back

Next is being happy and living a full life it's not easy

But all your emotions are important to be a fully developed human

Life It's not easy but if buying a property or a new car fills you up with happiness then you have a small life it's part of a life but not life

Family and friends most important part

 

[crazycat]

Lost contact with everyone bar 1 from Primary school and barely see that person but rate him as a mate.

I have lost contact with almost everyone from High school.
meh good riddance. (ok 98% good riddance).

I have lost contact with most people from Uni, wouldn't mind talking to them again.

I have lost contact with almost all workmates.

However I have kept a few friends, probably the longest has been since 2002.

Wife has kept contact with her high school best friend. But so many of their gatherings are "show".

I am finding it's better to get iwth the "characters" the strange people and the unusual. They are far more interesting.

 

[Jolls]

Still in contact with four mates I went to school and played footy with. I am also still close with many that I served with - a different type of bond.

 

[Demps]

Just seems you grow up and grow apart.

People move away, start families or you simply are too busy yourself.

I've got a couple friends I went to school with, talk to regularly... organising catch ups is the hard part.

Got a few work friends but that's different, as you see them more, but at work.

Catch up with my brother and brother in laws more often at family functions but theyre the bros, not friends but it's good chat.

 

[upthetigers]

is it wrong of me to cut off ties with someone i have known a large part of my life but would really only ever hang out at the pub? i feel like genuine friends do stuff outside of the pub

 

[BrissieTiger67]

is it wrong of me to cut off ties with someone i have known a large part of my life but would really only ever hang out at the pub? i feel like genuine friends do stuff outside of the pub

Any more context @upthetigers ? I'd say friends can serve different purposes so on your question it's not wrong to but not necessary. I have friends I just joke with over messenger and send memes to.

 

[Go_You_Good_Things]

Like most have said, you can lose track of your mates from school.
I look back on those times as important and I guess formative years. Finding out about cars, girls, booze and whatever else.
Anyway, point is, I recently set about re-connecting with the guys from school. We have found a group of maybe 15-20 of us that get together every few months . . . a pub in the rocks, Lidcombe oval, or a restaurant somewhere. Some of us hadn't seen each other for 40 years. It's good for your soul to rekindle the laughs you had during your school years and re-connect.
One thing I have found out about friends is that your real friends . . . the 3 or 4 that are long term . . . it doesn't matter if life gets in the way and you don't see each other for a few months or more . . . when you get back together it picks up straight away, as if you saw each other a few weeks ago. No judgement, no criticism about who's turn it is to call . . . it just carries on seamlessly.