Do you remember a best friend at school

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Rose65

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One of the memories I have is of my best friend at school. Meeting as tiny girls starting school on the same day. We were like sisters for such glorious carefree years of childhood. Hand in hand we would walk to school, she didn't live far, we sat together in classes and were inseparable.
Then suddenly her family were moving. Their family was growing and they needed a bigger house. I can't describe the devastation in my heart. We tried to keep in touch but of course our paths in life separated us and we never saw each other again.

That is one of the heartaches of childhood. I don't think I have ever had such a close friend again.

Did you have a best friend as a child?
 

Rose65 said:
One of the memories I have is of my best friend at school. Meeting as tiny girls starting school on the same day. We were like sisters for such glorious carefree years of childhood. Hand in hand we would walk to school, she didn't live far, we sat together in classes and were inseparable.
Then suddenly her family were moving. Their family was growing and they needed a bigger house. I can't describe the devastation in my heart. We tried to keep in touch but of course our paths in life separated us and we never saw each other again.

That is one of the heartaches of childhood. I don't think I have ever had such a close friend again.

Did you have a best friend as a child?
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I can relate @Rose65 It was devastating to separate from a best friend, due to constantly moving.
 
Yes, I remember... three of them, actually. I'm still connected to all three on Facebook and one of them was born just 5 minutes after I was... Besties since the day we could walk. :giggle: I'm glad that I never had to face any of them moving away.
 

Yes I had a best friend in school. She lived down the street from us on the other side of the road. When I walked to school, I stopped by her house to walk to school with her. We walked back home for lunch and back to school for the afternoon. Weā€™d often stop at the convenience store to get candy. I usually had a dime, a nickel or a few pennies to get a bit of candy. After school, I stayed at her house until my parents came home from work.

We played dolls, coloured in colouring books, played double Dutch, played with marbles, jumpsie ropes, collected cards, shared books etc. I often stayed there for dinner when theyā€™d invite me.

She was my best friend for most of my life. Unfortunately I lost touch with her when I moved.
 
Oh yeah. I had a friend I thought was my best friend. We did everything together during school, hung out, double dated, etc. However, I went in the military and he was exempt (sole surviving son), and things changed after I got home. Once I got my head sorta screwed back on straight and married the wife, it turned out that he was a back stabbing rimless nothing. Wife tried to tell me in subtle ways, but, I didn't listen.
It wasn't until I caught him stealing some of my tools that I began to doubt he was my buddy. (his excuse was he was stealing the wife's tools, so it was ok). :eek: :mad: The clincher came from others that told me how he had been hitting on the wife a bunch. She confirmed it, but said she was afraid to tell me for fear of what I'd do. (smart on her part or I'd be writing this from prison).
Anyway, we parted company then, but not before I warned him that prison or not, he was a dead man if I saw him ever again.
That still holds true today "Jake", so I hope you stay gone.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Yes I had a best friend in school. She lived down the street from us on the other side of the road. When I walked to school, I stopped by her house to walk to school with her. We walked back home for lunch and back to school for the afternoon. Weā€™d often stop at the convenience store to get candy. I usually had a dime, a nickel or a few pennies to get a bit of candy. After school, I stayed at her house until my parents came home from work.

We played dolls, coloured in colouring books, played double Dutch, played with marbles, jumpsie ropes, collected cards, shared books etc. I often stayed there for dinner when theyā€™d invite me.

She was my best friend for most of my life. Unfortunately I lost touch with her when I moved.
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That sounds just like my friend.
I actually think it's best left as a wonderful memory though. Sometimes if you see friends from a long time ago it's too upsetting because so much will have changed.
I like to think of those magic times when life was so innocent, we took each moment as it came, never worried about the future. School was an adventure of learning and life was so good.
 
OldFeller said:
Friendships form between people who share a common experience everyday.

They start from conversations comparing those experiences.

Once the situation changes and your individual life experiences start to vary enormously, those friendships lose what made them thrive.
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Absolutely. We cannot recapture that time but we can treasure it.
 
I had a nomadic childhood and changed schools numerous times. I always had a 'best friend' with whom I shared everything. Inevitably, we lost touch when we both moved. It's curious that I have never met up with any of them again.
 
I should explain that there are very few people I know that I call friend. Lot's of acquaintances... but, few friends.
One friend in particular comes to mind. I shared this story on a blog I made, but, to my friend George (who has now passed on), we'll see each other again my friend... bank on it.
The story... Life must go onā€¦ Moving cross country part two.
 
Beezer said:
I have about 4 lifelong friends...met them all in grade 7 when I was 12 years old. Although geography separates some of us, when we meet it's like we were never apart to begin with.
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I met my best friend in 7th grade too! It was a new combined school fed by all the little 1-6 elementary schools. I walked down to where the school bus stopped and there she was! We seemed to recognize kindred spirits immediately. We live in different states now, but get together once a year and phone and e-mail often.
 
I kept in contact with 3 old friends from HS....until they all passed away 2 to 5 years ago. One of the students kept a web site posting the news about my graduation class. She passed about 2 years ago, and one of her last posts indicated that over half of the class of over 600 was no longer with us.

Any more, I don't really want any close associations, other than the family. Losing a close friend is depressing.
 
I grew up (through 8th grade) in a small mountain town in Colorado. My best friend was Ronny. We were as close as two young boys could get. We were opposites in many ways, but we both liked to play sports and we were very adventuresome. He was real funny and kept me laughing all the time.

Suddenly, following 8th grade my parents advised me we were moving. My Dad had found a new job in a bigger city in Colorado. I was devastated and when I told my buddy, he too could not believe it. We were already working out at the high school with the freshman coach and we wanted to play sports together in high school. We assumed we would finish high school together...But it was not to be...

I kept in touch for a year or so, but as I became more involved with my new school, we lost touch. I was able to see him during the winter of our Jr. year when my parents visited friends in our old town. After that I again lost touch... I got married after college and I tried to get back in touch with Ronny. I found out that he was killed in an auto accident up in Nebraska where he went to college. I was shocked and saddened, I really hoped we could reconnect after college...

I have had a couple of other real good friends, but none ever quite came up to Ronnie...he was something special...
 
My family moved from NY to FL and in FL we moved from one place to a 2nd one. So I had best friends from school in all three places. I am thankful to be friends with them and other friends from school now on FB. We talk every day, some more than others.
 
I'm still good friends with 2 of my old school mates. We all turned 80 last year. I'm still great friends with those I used to work with from the age of 15 up until now. There were 7 of us but 3 have passed away. One of them died in January and her son sent me a photo of her laid out in the coffin, I got such a shock to see it, but the son wanted to show me he had placed a photo of the 7 of us together. I rang my friends and told them "We have all been cremated", we did look on the humorous side of it though.
 
Rose65 said:
Did you have a best friend as a child?
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I seemed to cycle through them. Up to the 8th grade, 4 come to mind. Not all at the same time. By definition you can have only one best friend at a time. I suppose there could be a tie between two, but that was not the case for me. I had lots of other friends too. And they are pretty vivid in my memory. My longest running friendship started in 7th grade, and we are still friends today, although we don't see each other anymore.
 
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