High school was either the best time of your life or the worst time. It’s hard to find anyone who thinks otherwise. Your experience in high school probably depended a lot on who you spent your time with. If you had a good group of friends in high school, they were probably some of the best friends you’ve ever had.
Think back to those friends or that group… Do you still talk to them? Do you still see them? If so, how long have you been friends for? Please vote in today’s poll then feel free to answer those questions in the comments below. Thanks!
One of my best friends is from High school. She made me a beautiful quilt for our 60 years as friends. Now it’s 63 years. Now we call each other our “oldest and dearest friends.” We have gone through marriage, divorce, widowhood. kids, and now we do some traveling together. We live about 400 miles apart but talk on the phone frequently and visit each other a few times a year.
Lucky us.
I have 2 friends from elementary school with whom I meet up for lunch when I’m back in the area several times a year.
I still meet with friends from grade school also, whenever we are back in our hometown.
No friends from high school, but I have a best friend from Basic and AIT Army in 1966, that I am in contact with. Though we aren’t close regionally we are still best friends after all these years.
I married my best friend from high school! And over 50 years later she is still my best friend.
I was pretty active on Facebook for several years and became reacquainted with several people with whom I went to high school. The death of a college friend seems to have all but ended my activity on Facebook. However, I do send Christmas cards to a few and talk to others via messaging. Late in January I finally actually cast eyes on one when I took him a load of firewood. We had a nice visit, including lunch.
…other than my wife.
I still maintain contact with three guys I grew up with starting in grammar school. I never see them though. They still live in Chicago and I’m in NV.
We were eight dating back from 5th grade, we lost Nate a few years ago and Ed recently moved to another state, who are still in contact with one another on a regular basis. We meet for lunch every 2-3 months. We actually had a luncheon just last year with our high school wrestling coach who I was able to get in contact with through the US mail, lol. We are the Class of 75, 48 years this June. With the exception of one, we’re all military vets. We are “brothers” for life.
Once a year and she’s still fun.
I get to see lots of high school friends at the biennial 60s Class Reunions held in my hometown. We also have a facebook group to keep everyone informed of the comings and goings – now mostly goings – of each other. Before I moved 500 miles away 33 years ago, I worked at the local grocery store saw a lot of some classmates and even worked with a few.
We text quite often (nearly daily) but due to distance we don’t see each other. Its sad as time flies by and we age, losing loved ones makes us feel more and more vulnerable yet life keeps us from doing everything we would like to.
I do hope to make the time to travel (many states away) and visit, just to hug and say Hey!
Our wives have only met once and that was his wedding, so there’s lots to catch up on. Some day hopefully!
Scott, plan it now. There is no someday on the calendar.
I have a few friends from High School that I am friends with on Face book (3) and since high school , 45 years, I have met with two friends. Didn’t leave anything back there
No I don’t see or talk to any friends from high school. I didn’t really enjoy high school that much. Wanted to go to a small school but ended up going to the largest high school in the state with almost 550 in my class. Since my wife was in my class, we do go to the reunions held every 5 yrs, next year will be our 60th.
We were renegades together in Freshman year, and now — almost 65 years later — still are when we get together. Which isn’t often enough. I am fortunate to have several best friends, but she is my oldest and dearest and the only keeper of my hardest secret.
Every day! I married her…
My best friend dates back to toddlers (66 years). Our mothers were best friends and we lived across the street from each other. We don’t see each other very often but distance and time don’t mean a thing. Each time we speak or see each other it’s like yesterday. We are now at the wonderful RV resort in Arizona for 5 months together with our spouses and are having a fantastic time. If only it was a little warmer.
Absolutely! We both became police officers, after both being in combat in Vietnam, and he went on to become a great Police Chief with a law degree and I while being an officer, joined my wife in real estate, therefore working two careers simultaneously. He and I still get together periodically and enjoy his company as always. My wife is my other high school friend who I married about 9 years after graduating and 48 years later are also still BEST FRIENDS and Husband and Wife! I am truly blessed.
I married my high school sweetheart, so yes, I see her every day.
We winter down in San Felipe Baja California Mexico. Imagine my shock when, out of the blue, a former friend from High School messaged me to say that a friend (whom I knew!) had told her that she was in the same little sleepy fishing village as I!! And in the next-door Campo! 45 years since we had seen each other It was incredible and marvelous!
I rarely see them but we do keep in touch on Facebook.
I married and am still married to my high school sweetheart, Steve. Also still see and go camping with my best friend from high school, Diane.
Aside from my wife, I only have one friend from high school within 500 miles and we don’t see each other outside of class reunions. Most of my high school friends are dead, which really limits the possibility.
All my good friends from high school are dead. Motorcycle, drinking, and smoking took them.
I voted for rarely, but, I married my High School Sweetheart and also keep in touch with one of my classmates on Facebook. The fact of me entering the military and remaining away from my hometown may be a factor in my not staying closer to more classmates.
Have a friend from Junior High and High School that I still see each week and text all the time. There were times in college we disconnected but one day I walked into a class and sat next to each other like no time had passed.
Many of my fellow graduates meet every month for lunch, when we are not traveling I join them.
Actually, we met in junior high – what might be called “middle school” today – in 1960! We will both be 75 this year 15 days apart! That is a LONG time to have a friend. I also have one that I very rarely see that I met in the 10th grade in 1963! I feel very fortunate to call these two remarkable women my friends!
Last reunion 2019, which was the last reunion, there were 10 of us left out of a graduating class of 289. I believe we are down to 4 of us left now and only 2 of us still are able to travel. I will have dinner with one when I go to WV this summer if I am able. I am 81 now.
Yes, my wife!
Only at reunions–and we may not have a 70th….