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#1 ·
Those of us babyboomers who have been around a while had a tenedency to make friends at an early age and maintain that friendship for decades. You know the person so long they become family a brother. You get to be their best man and they got to be yours. You were able to see each others children grow up. You know each others highs and lows in life.
How valuable is that friendship to you, if you have one...that is my question.
 
#2 ·
My best friends are some of the guys I met in grade school and high school, and that was a long time ago. We still get together multiple times each year.
 
#3 ·
I'm visiting college friends this weekend, at this very moment I'm ignoring them in fact.

We don't keep in touch a lot between visits, but when we get together it's like we haven't been apart. Just very comfortable. It's that way for lots of the folks we made friends with back then. It's pretty cool.
 
#5 ·
My brother and I share a best mate. None of us live near each other, but we each value the other dearly. We are all colourblind. Other than that none of us is anything like the other two. On the rare occasion we get to tour with each other, it's the best times of our lives.
 
#6 ·
Serendipitous timing Lee! This morning I read something that reminded me of my best friends growing up. Two brothers (twins) and another buddy. The four of us were inseparable since we were 10 years old through college. We were all in each others weddings trading off the best man role, etc. And not five minutes after I thought of them one of the Twin brothers gave me a call. At that very moment, he had heard a song on the radio that reminded him of me. We all live in different parts of the country now, and dont see each other nearly often enough, but even after not talking with him for months it's like he lived around the corner.
 
#7 ·
Jun I know exactly what you mean. I have a friend just like that and I live too far away now. I have known him since he was four and over 52 years there are so many memories... from childhood to adulthood. I think of him as my brother.
 
#8 · (Edited)
I still talk to my buddy from first grade at least once a week. Wish he lived closer. We've been best friends for 52 years now. All the neighborhood mom's told my mom not to let me play with him when we moved there, she didn't listen to them.

Here's a pic taken about 12 years ago. I'm the sh!tf@ced one on the right, he's the bad@$$ HD dude acting like he's on his bike.

 
#12 ·
Most of my friends who I've stayed in touch with were from earlier in my life, when making friends was easy-peazy. But people move, and I've become more selective, so I don't don't attach to people willy nilly anymore. My best friends are the ones who have worked as hard to stick with me as I with them. Put another way, those who haven't let time and distance degrade the bond.

My best friend lives 6,000 miles away, and my favorite local friend just split with his wife and moved to another city. Except for a couple of neighbors and and my ex in-laws - none of whom I socialize with much - my main social circle is workmates. They're a fun bunch, so that's a good thing, but for the first time in my life, I don't have a hang-around buddy. I need to join a knitting club or something. :D
 
#16 ·
One unfortunate fact that becomes more evident as I get along into my 60's is that we lose those close friends one by one. Very little that has happened in my life has brought me down like the death of my best friend Chris a couple years ago. Four of us surviving friends, scattered from Arizona to Alaska, have a confrence call every Dec. 28 to toast him on his birthday. R.I.P. Little Buddy!
 
#17 ·
Unc after my surgery I have two continental states I have not been in yet on my bike...Nevada is one. When I recover I plan to have a visit to your state...I will buy you a beer and wee can have ride around your state when I come out that way would be great and I am sorry for the loss of your friend....
 
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