After highschool, is it true you forget your friends?

It's been less than a year out of school for me and so far i've gone out of contact with at least 4 of my friends. Not entirely out of contact though, as I occasionally still see them, but it's just not the same as high school.

Work is usually the reason of the disarray.

After highschool the number of friends I hang out with regularly dropped significantly. Most of them are at college out of state, and some are in the military. I only have 4 that I am in regular contact with nowadays and one of those is still in highschool.

It not that I forgot the rest its just that you get so caught up in your life that you really have no way of contacting them. Unless you have a cell number or something.

It varies from person to person. I'm still close with a bunch of my buddies from high-school because we still live in the same area and managed to keep in touch. But there are some other people I haven't talked to in years either because they moved or they hang out with a different crowd.

Depends on your circumstances ;)

Myself I'm still in touch with them but I only see them once a year in febuary, I work to much and travel around from to much because of it to be able to spend time around many people (other then my wife naturally).

Its not like you are in school afterwards, its completely different and you rarely have time to spend around your mates even when your in university you develope new relationships with different groups of people whom will seem closer to you then some people you've known for years.

Afterwards however and it gets kinda convaluded trying to juggle your life around spending time with your friends, family, work, etc.

You will forget many of your friends however cause they like you will be trying to get along with your life ;)

Its different for everyone though.

Well my friends still live near me, some have moved, but we'll hang out on the weekends.

but I could care less about anyone else from my school.

sometimes u do sometimes u dont depends on the person

I doubt I'll ever see them -

I would be surprised if I did

i'm only close with 4 ppl i went to hs with 11 years later now. i can accept that.

Ok, here's another way of looking at it. I'm 33, graduated with a class of about 400, and got along with most, and had a core group of 40-50 friends, during college those paired down to 25 or so. Then during our 20's we got married, moved, and so on. Now out of my high school friends I see 3-4 on a monthly basis. I talk or e-mail alot of them, but there just isn't the time socially to see them all, plus your not spending half your waking day with them. It is sad in a way, but it's life. When I bump into someone I haven't seen since High School or College it's great, but you make new friends with jobs, your spouses friends, neighbors, ect.. I always say I don't really want new friends, because I cant see the one's I have enough. It's a nightmare trying to plan a yearly fishing trip only 45 miles away 10 of us used to go on every other month. 1's a CPA,1 a DR, 1 has 5 kids, I've gotta be out of town, blah blah blah, moral of the story, you keep them always, but as 20 becomes 30 you do lose seeing them.

I make a point not to forget my friends from high school, but it's sad seeing that inevitably even my best few friends are inevitably drifting away. Our lives have so quickly spread out into different directions, and there are other factors which make it difficult to keep in touch.

It's very possible though, that after college is over and everything, and your friends from high school still talk to you... it's pretty probable that they're not just going to up and expel you from your life. There are tons of factors that affect this... college/no-college, distance, personal issues. It's insane.

I'd say its true half the time.

In my case, I went through some changes or, in truth, no changes. You see between middle school and high school the crew I hung out with and played sports with went through some lame changes. They all sort of turned into aholes and started revolving around "the cool kid" and I wasnt having any of that. So at the end of middle school I was essentially friendless; the fact that my best friend stole something sentimental of mine, and the fact that I beat the crap out of the popular kid, did not go over well with many people and their parents lol.

Then I went to high school and played football. All my friends were on the football team or in the band (band nerds unite!) but, while I hung out with these guys at school, I didnt really have a best friend or close circle I would see outside of school. Sure, I would drive around with my friends and smoke weed at night but thats about it. The problem is that the friends I hung out with had been friends since elementary school, so they were subconciously unwelcoming of another person to their circle.

So when I graduated and went to college, I really didnt see them again. The fact that I worked at school during the summer and only came home for two weeks during winter break and one week during spring break weakened any already-weak bonds I had with people. Outside of random encounters, I havent seen any high school friends for six years now.

Its all good, though. I now have a good circle of friends and even a few best friends from college and, while I dont really get out much as I am living at home now (looking for a job sucks!), I stay in touch with my friends and every other week I go hang out with them.

So ya, not seeing your friends from high school isnt really a bad thing. It just is.