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Ah friends...one of the parts of my life I don't really enjoy thinking about. I don't really remember a lot about my friends before high school. When I was in high school, I kind of had two sets of friends. One set of friends became highly involved with drugs and one even started stealing (big ticket items) from his job. I started hanging out with all of them less and less. One of my best friends and I had a pretty disappointing ending to our friendship. We no longer speak to each other, and I really could care less how she is doing or if I ever see her again. There's a part of me that feels horrible saying that, but then there's the other half of me saying, remember how she treated you...she's not worth it.

The other group of friends from high school were very quiet, good students, and generally really nice people. We'd write each other notes every day during class, leave gifts in each other's lockers, and generally cared for each other. We still stay in contact, though not very often due to how far we are from each other (New York, Arizona, London). These are the people I will always remain friends with.

As far as college friends, I don't speak to very many. My boyfriend (we got together after college) was my best friend in college (and still is). Pretty much everyone else I know from college I remain in contact with only for networking and finding new jobs.

These days, beyond my boyfriend and two friends from high school, I don't really have any friends. I have colleagues at work, but I don't really consider them my friends because they never hang out with me outside of work (though they always hang out together, without me). And when I leave my job, I know that they won't bother to stay in touch with me, so I'm not bothering to put anything into those relationships...They won't miss me when I'm gone.

I suppose this lack of real life friends is why I spend so much time online in forums. I feel like this post was completely pathetic, but it felt good to get some of it out.

I guess it happens to everybody. I remember a quote from a movie or something, about the fact that despite you might think you know somebody for a long time, we actually just briefly touch each other's life.

I used to have a group of childhood friends, mostly because our parents all have lots of contact with each other. We practically grew up together and formed a pretty close group. But after high school, we started to find different interests, went off to other places to study and so spent less and less time together.

Right now I just have a couple of friends, barely a handful, that I hang out with. And some not even that much either. But I am content with the friends I have right now, I never had any need for that much friends anyway, I just need a couple that are sincere and close by

Mostly, I tend to lose touch when I change schools. It's inevitable, I guess, but it still hurts when I can't get someone who used to be one of my best friends on the phone. On the other hand, I know that the ones who stay in contact are keepers.

As for proper endings, they usually come about when a friend starts a rumor about me, or does something horrible unethical. Occasionally, I realize that my friend and I bring out the worst side of each other. The one is the worst for me: I hate knowing that I'm meaner when I'm around someone, even though we're all having fun.

Maybe it's a stupid reason to end a friendship, but I don't like thinking that someone is a worse person for having known me. Oddly, though, I tend to be on the best terms with former friends like that. We're friendly when we run into each other, but we try to avoid spending much time together. It's a little painful--I still care about these people--but it's better than all of us turning into jerks for the sake of the friendship.

I've got some excellent friends who I love to bits now, but I do miss the old ones. I doubt it'll get easier.

I've never fought with a friend and lost them because of that. We've just sort of drifted our separate ways, mainly because I didn't see them in school, and I rarely see anyone outside of school anyway.

I have closer friends now, that became close especially last year. My best friend moved this year, but we are so close that it hasn't really changed anything, thankfully. Now I just can't see her in person quite as often, so instead her and I have greatly increased our parent's long distance phone bills.

Reading all of these other posts makes me realize how lucky I am.

I've never had a friendship end dramatically, though, to be honest, I would never say that I've ever had a friendship "end". I had a childhood friend, but he started hanging out with a certain crowd (mostly the intellectual crowds and even more geeky that I am crowd) and I hung out with a completely different group (the funny jokester type). I had classes with him, be we really never talked to each other, I'm not sure why. After High School, in college, I was then hanging out with the "intellectua-mellow" types, and he hung out with the "intellectual-goofy" type (pretty much the same group as he did in high school, that wasn't a choice for me, though, as only 2 people I hung around with from HS were really around me daily).

I've tried striking up conversations, but they were always interupted by his friends (who I am also friendly with, I just don't hang out with them), and I haven't talked to him since December of 2005, and he lives about a clock away.

Another problem is that I had TWO childhood friends, and they were completely different, were interested in completely different things, and were rather awkward around each other. It was awkward for me too, forcing them to be with each other, as I was always with both of them. Eventually after we started talking less and less, the other friend, who I was truthfully around less and talked to much less often, was around me much more often, and we started talk more than we had to begin with. That sort of thing happens around the Hishschool period, though.

Truthfully, I only ever had 3 good friends, one of them I never talk to, one of them I never see has he's a slave to his work (he works at a grocery store... he hasn't had a free day in 5 months? Yeah right. >_>) And the other comes over every week.

I have 2 really close friends. We've been friends since around 2nd grade I believe and still hang out all the time when we're all back home. They are the kind of best friends that you can hang out with to have a heck of a fun time and not have to worry about anything..not the kind that you tell your deepest secrets to. I've had 1 or 2 of those, and those are the ones that end dramatically.

I have a group of about eight people that I spend all of my time with. I have tons of other friends, but those are the people who I actually consider to be good friends. Even then, as Frankie said, they're not the 'tell all your secrets to' kind of friends. Well- one of them is, but most of them, not really. We all don't have very much in common. I think we're just together because by some chance we ended up together. And I'm okay with that.

I've only had two people in my life so far that I would trust with anything, and neither of those friendships have ended (though one moved nine hundred miles away, and the other is having an off season). I'm very picky about the people I ultimately trust, so I don't pick people who I won't be friends with in a year.

I have 4 best friends,3 of which are the tell secret friends,one of them I've only known for a year and a half,but she lives right across form me.