Have you ever lost a friend?

[bongo_man]

Being in my senior year in high school I've met several people that I'm proud to call my friend, and even a select few who I've gotten close with. I can honestly say I've never truly lost a friend throughout my life; I have drifted away from some people, but we're still able to catch up every now and then.

[ilya]

Plenty of them, some I thought I'd never part with. People just grow apart over time especially if certain factors are in place (drug abuse, new lifestyles).

It sucks

[Wizz]

Yup, when I moved from Mexico to Connecticut to California I lost plenty.

[Star_Fox]

plenty of times.

[Azvareth]

Mostly just the obligatory childhood friends that I didn't have anything in common with anymore when we developed other interests besides playing with action figures. But I've lost a couple of really good ones due to either nightmarish girlfriends, or the most recent one because he really can't handle his alcohol and did a lot of very dumb [cabbage]. Slowly getting back together with one of the "nightmarish girlfriend" types though, but it's not that easy because she's not very keen on letting him wander more than 100m away from her.

[tripsis]

Yes. Going from middle school to high school was difficult for me because I was going to different high school than all of my friends. It was really hard to stay connected with them through that and although we do catch up now and then, it hasn't been the same since. But there is one friend that I have truly lost. We were best friends for several years, and tbh, she was my first real best friend.. the kind of friend that you share absolutely everything with, gawk about boys/crushes with, hang out with all the time, etc. In 8th grade, she slowly started getting involved with drugs, drinking, etc., and when I realized that she wasn't going to stop despite me trying to steer her away from it, I tried to put up with it as long as she didn't try to involve me.. but then she started trying to push it on me too, so I stopped trying to make our friendship work.

 

I also lost another friend due to distance, but it isn't quite as dramatic. He was my best friend before middle school for several years, but then his family went on a four year boat trip around the world and we had no way to stay connected. Then he came back in 8th grade and we got close again, but then he went to a boarding school for high school so we lost touch again. I haven't seen him in over 4 years now D:

[armybuilder]

Do you ever truly lose them. Things might not be the same anymore but they are still your friend what you had makes them still your friend. Thats how i see it.

I dont do best friends never have the closest thing i had to a friend happened for the last 2 years i told her everything then we suddently changed and things happened between us and now we dont talk at all anymore i still see her at college but other than that nothing. +(

[deathdrow]

I've lost many from moving around a lot when I was younger, I lost contact with all my friends from ottawa when I lived there. When I left I never got a chance to say bye to them, and I was too shy to call them up and say bye, or anything. I tried many times to, but I never had the balls to finish dialing there numbers. I've also lost friends to drugs and alcohol and whatnot, but that's no big deal.

[Stilev]

yes, heart failure, it sucls

[Lenticular_J]

Some, not many though. I can't name more than a couple of people I went to elementary school with. I don't talk to everyone I used to, but that happens.

 

I need to force myself away from a few friends of mine that I spend most of my time with, though. They're [wagon] because they assume that now that they have girlfriends they can awkwardly cuddle with, they don't need actual friends. It's like the plot of a Michael Cera movie. I can just see his awkward face...

[mcneilp]

Not really, just see some people i used to hang around with a lot less than i used to. Although there is one good friend who i haven't seen since he started seeing his current girlfriend. Been over a year since i've spoken to him. Got him added on facebook though so it's no big deal really.

[Albel]

I have lost friends on two fronts. Going from high school to college I lost a few, I still talk to them but It's the same as it used to be.

 

I lost a great friend who I met at diabetes camp (Yes there IS a diabetes camp, don't believe me search "Camp Kno koma" in google) (also ive been a daibetic for going on 11 years now)

 

The first time I met her we were LIT's (Leaders in traning) we were to old to be campers, but to young to be counselors so it was traning for us. She was a awesome friend, and she loved everyone. She was one of my best friends at camp that year. After camp, we kept in touch but slowly we driffted apart. The next year of camp I was told that she died in a car wreck. Her blood sugar dropped so low that she passed out while she was driving and hit a tree killing her instantly. It just was not the same after she died. I had my friends, but my best friend was taken from me...and I didn't even know about it till months later. It will pain me to go back to camp, but it's what she would want.

 

RIP Brittany

[Star.]

Yup, all of them. The people who I spent most of my Primary and Secondary school years with, we don't speak at all. It's awkward, I wouldn't know what to say to them if we met.

[Abc1230]

The few friends I had when I was 9ish ALL moved away within a year... I guess that's part of why I'm so [bleep]ed up ;)... You can't lose friends if you don't have any :P

[fastortoise]

I spend maximum 1 year with a group of friends before I move onto a new one. My only constant friends are my 4 childhood ones, who I doubt and hope I will never lose. All the others are acquaintances.

[Skull]

Only two good friends, they both moved away before freshman year and I haven't seen either since. I've talked to them but I haven't seen them.

 

I did lose a friend on facebook the other day though (I had 200 friends exactly before that, that's the only reason I know). I talk to maybe 10-20 of the people I'm friends with on facebook, and the one that "removed me" was my best friend :lol: . It's less funny because he's in trouble with the police again though and they're apparently monitoring his internet and phone use so he took his facebook down I think.

[Lenticular_J]

I spend maximum 1 year with a group of friends before I move onto a new one. My only constant friends are my 4 childhood ones, who I doubt and hope I will never lose. All the others are acquaintances.

I'm starting to become like that. It kind of sucks that I can't lose this one group of friends, though. I feel like I should make more friends my age, but they seem much more cliquey and less open to newcomers - well, somewhat newcomers.

 

I really only have one best friend, and he lives back in my hometown. Ideally we'll room together in college, which would be awesome. I also have some people, namely girls that I met on the cruise, that I have an interesting friend relationship with. More than friends, less than lovers is the expression I believe? I hope to see some of them again, they're very fun ladies.

[Guest Mrmegakirby]

Eh. Nothing major... One friend starting the girl I've like for 3 years recently, so I got pissed at him, then realised he was never a friend at all.

(It wasn't that he started dating the girl that made me hate him, but him doing that that made me realise all of the things he had done before that).

 

Other then that, changing schools, I've drifted away from a few friends, but keep in touch constantly and hang out with my best friend back in grade 4. I'll be drifting away from most of my friends this septemeber, when we all go to highschool, but I still have a few good months until that.

(No, I'm not in highscoll yet -.-)

[ThurinEthir]

I moved when I was nearly 4, so I "lost" my earliest friends then. I see one or two of them sometimes when I go back to visit, but we don't keep in touch and there's a pretty big language barrier.

Then sometime in middle school one of my best friends from elementary school became one of my worst "enemies."

Now I don't really call anyone my friend except for those who I know will stick with me until we go our separate ways. Though I'll most likely stay in touch with them, since there's e-mail and Facebook and IM and all that stuff.

[Lenin64]

Not to death or anything but yea, tons. I've noticed lately that people pass through my life quite regularly and if I never see them again, it doesn't really matter for the most part, probably because of how many I've had to leave. It even applies to some family. Moved countless times, I'm going to a different high school than all but one of my middle school friends, and our interaction at present is little more than a "sup" is the hall, some I just grew distant from and haven't seen in years, though I live just up the road a ways. And so far every year of high school has been a completely different set of people for the most part, just a few people that stay constant in some courses (German and ROTC).

 

I think that's a quality that will come in handy later on down the road.

[RpgGamer]

I've lost a few friends in my day. Some to disaster (house burnt down, or got lyme disease), others to malformed morales (drinking/drugs)

 

It's a shame, but I always amke new friends, so the universe is still in check.

[rangeor]

Quite a few of my best friends from elementary school have drifted away. They also ignored my facebook friend requests :P Same with middle school, but that's probably because we're all 875 miles apart now...

 

Plus one of my neighbors died in Iraq two years ago. Actually, it'll be two years from the monday two weeks from now. He was really cool, he taught me how to throw a knife and got me into System of a Down. This was his favorite song, and when I listen to it now it feels kind of surreal.

 

Oh, and a guy I talked a few times from middle school died in a weight-lifting accident. He was benching without a spotter and the bell landed on his neck, and when his mom checked up on him for dinner she found him unconscious with a barbell on his neck... He was a cool guy, and his yearbook picture was right next to mine.

 

Then some other kid from my biology class in middle school died from some illness. I never really knew him though.

[Nero]

My childhood best friend committed suicide a few months ago. Eh, he always was an impulsive bastard lol

[Th3_Crusader]

One of my best friends died two years ago in March. I've lost 3 close friends, and some I really never talked to much anymore. it's hard to get through it.

[Natures_Idol]

I've lost two of my best friends over 2 years. One of them had been my best friend and we'd pretty much spent all the time in school together for about 3 years but he just seemed to drift away and hasn't really talked to me since. The recently, about 2 months ago, my best friend who I used to talk to about everything just stopped talking to me at all. After spending years of talking about everything whenever possible, she doesn't even look at me or speak to me. Really sucks, I guess I'm prepared to lose more friends now - after being used to going without the last two. Don't know anybody who's died though.