Keeping in touch
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- June
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Be honest: How many friends from high school do you still keep in touch with?
I thought about this last week at my daughter’s graduation ceremony.
One of the speakers, the president of the class, observed that many of the graduating seniors would never see each other again.
The word ‘never’ always makes me tear up. But she was right.
After high school ends, few of us stay in touch with every member of our graduating class. And many of us don’t work hard enough to keep up with friends.
I’m always happy to get a phone call or an e-mail from a friend from the past, but I’ve let many old friendships languish out of pure laziness.I don’t think I’m alone in this. Weeks pass, then months  and suddenly it’s been ten years since you talked to that best friend from college.
What about you? Do you work hard to keep up friendships?
How many friends from high school do you still see?
Do you value friendship more in middle age?
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Baby boomer Linda Lombroso was born in Queens and grew up in Port Washington. She began her journalism career at New York Magazine and Rolling Stone, and came back to the field after spending 10 years as a stay-at-home mother. Linda joined The Journal News in 1997 and has been a Life & Style writer since 2000. She has three children.
we got back together for a reunion. hung out and that was the end of it.
As it is. i only keep in touch with a handful from college even. I value friendship but its a 2 way street.
if they drop off and i am the only one hunting then it was meant to end.
I’m one of those strange people that keeps in touch with lots of old friends. My friends from elementary school remain some of my best and closest friends. I went to a small school, where many of us got to know each other quite well, and we’re really like family. I do keep in touch with friends from high school (many are the same friends from elementary school) and only a handful of folks from college. I think it’s sometimes an effort to maintain the contacts, but I love my friends so much that it’s not really an effort at all. (For me, at least – maybe it’s not the same to them!)