I found a person who was when we were children my worst enemy and then when we where adults best friends. It has been so long that I spoke to them and in one way it felt good and in another is just emphasized the passage of time and how it changes us. Does anyone else out there keep in touch with people from your childhood and young adult years?

My two oldest friends are people I met when we were 13....
Were all pushing 50 and have remained friends all these years. Those are the best friends to have, the ones who know everything you have ever done and still love.

worst enemy to best friends is a much harder transition than best friends to worst enemies..at least for me it is...but your right...as time passes on, its becoming much easier to forgive...and much more difficult to hold on to righteousness...to indignation...

roko

My best friend and I have been friends for 25 years. We've survived his being in the marines & serving in desert storm & iraq (multiple times), each of us getting married, each of us getting divorced, and any number of lesser dramas. We are the one constant in each others' lives, and we both give thanks that we've been friends as long as we have.

Jimmy mac and I have been friend for almost 40 years !!!

An old friend from childhood contacted me after 40 yrs.
Said he had been looking for me for yrs on the internet, after a couple of emails, he disappeared .....????

I talked about this one person. I will say that my best friend I have had since I was 4. We grew up together and talk about anything and everything. We have been friends for 46 years now. We have been through it all. You have to admit that as kids in a small neighborhood there are all kinds of relationships and conflicts. I ignored some of the other people that maybe I shouldn't have and now I am becoming to appreciate who they are and I am a little surprised that they would like to see me once more.
I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters. The friends I made sometimes mean more. You have to make you own way in this world.

Nope.

There are some things in this world that you should take notice of...who you are, where you are from, and the things that have shaped your life. Never ever stop thinking about what was and who you were. Some day it will mean a lot. It won't matter who is there or not...it will matter only who you are. And a good sense of humor will help.

All my friends from my youth are in prison or dead. I ran with a bad crowd. I am still friends with a few people I met in my early 20s though.

So what kind of person are you now? How much did those people you grew up with shape who you are now?
I need to stop with this thing. We all are just who we are. I hope we are are good people or trying to be. I just got messed up with my first meeting someone here. Now I am questioning everything.

The group I hung out with in high school still gets together. There were 10 in our group. 4 have passed away already. 5 of us get together at least once a month sometimes more. We have been out of high school now for 26 yrs. They are the one thing that has remained constant in my life. We have been through thick and thin together. I wouldn't trade them for anything.

i leave my past in the past.

EDIT!!

except my two best friends in high school..

my best friend in phoenix....

my ex who cracks jokes online with me....

thats it.

except..

:p

I dont

The title of this thread reminded me of The Beatles:

There are places I remember all my life,
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments
Of lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I loved them all.

And with all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these mem'ries lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
And I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them.
In my life I loved you more.

And I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them.
In my life I loved you more
In my life I loved you more

Me either.

i've lost contact with everybody i knew from my childhood but last year i went to a choir thing that my niece was doing in the school cafeteria and i looked at my senior class on the wall.it brought back a lot of memories

I refuse to stay in contact with those from my school years, because the things they did to me as a kid will haunt me forever.

Elementary, no. Jr.High, only my best friend. High School, my ex-husband.

Im still friends with someone when I was 10 years old. Ive moved away but I bet if I called her right now it would be like I never left. Were like sisters.