Are you still friends with the people you were close to in high school or in your early 20s?

No , I am a different person than I was and they are too

I am though we all live far away, different continents even. But we stay in touch, have frequent calls, texts, etc. And we sometimes make an occasion for visiting in person. I think the culture, the US, definitely pushes against that though. We are very oriented to 'move for the best work, for advancement' rather than 'put down roots.' I would estimate that, of my high school friends and acquaintances, only maybe 20% still live in my home town.

Still together with mu kandeel garden friends we are 13 people together from past 14yrs

I'm friends with them still but I almost never see them Will text on occasion Go through our annual "we got to get together soon" text But we pretty much only see each other when someone dies and we have to go to the wake funeral or celebration of life I'm in the USA but I'm 35

I have a friend for 12 yrs

There's one person I'll talk to every so often from high school since we have a lot of similar interests. Otherwise, I've lost touch with everyone. We grew apart for a variety of reasons. I'm not looking to reconnect, quite frankly. I'd rather try meeting new people. What's the saying? "Forwards Ever, Backwards Never"?

I’m 38 and have a collection of mates ‘curated’ over time. I’ve not kept in touch with everyone, but generally have at least one good mate from each period of my life who I keep in touch with and visit as best as I can for someone who has moved to the other side of the world :) I like having friends I can regress with and be silly, who know who I’ve been throughout my life. But I also enjoy my later friends who know me for who I have become and the person I am now. I feel lucky to have such a fine collection of friends :)

I am married to one of them, so yes, plus a couple other people

Yes, but not near as close. They are still the closest I have to friends but I only see the once or twice a year.  It gets really hard to make friends once you get older and I hate it.

I’m still great friends with my classmates from 5th grade, and I met my bestfriend when I was 12. I am now 45 and there’s no friends like your old friends. I love my girlies and we still giggle over a lot of silly things we did over the years. I since moved away from home, but still talks to them almost daily.

40 years old, still stay in touch now and then with two high school friends and used to be in regular touch with one who sadly passed away in her 30s. I live in LA, and the friends I still talk to are in DC and Istanbul, we have very different lives and don’t talk every month, we’re not close anymore. But nice to connect every once in a while.

I still talk to some people sometimes, and we’re friends on Facebook still, but we’re not close like we used to be. I’m definitely not the same person I was back then.

I think it’s very individual. I have two childhood friends from 56 years ago though we rarely see each other. But when we do we pick up like we’ve never fallen out of touch. I’m in touch with some people I knew as a kid, and from highschool and university. A few I’d call friends. Most of my adult friends came later in life.

I got 2 friends I’m still actively talking from high school and still going strong my university group after 10 years

Only with one, really. And she lives in a different country now. We lost contact, studied in different cities, some of us moved to other countries. From our group from high school only one is still in our hometown and honestly half the time she pretends she doesn't see us just not to say hello, we'll never understand why. With most, if we happen see each other we'll say hi, maybe chat for a bit and go on with our lives. I'm only close with one of them... we somehow stayed closed while studying in different cities, when she moved to Mexico and I stayed in Europe, and even living in different countries. We see each other a few times a year, she usually stays a day or two at my place before going to visit her family, and while away to send each other lots of reels, a few messages and (in my case) voice messages that are like podcasts. Then there's another one that I was very close to growing up, then we distanced from each other, and now that she is living in Australia we actually send each other a message from time to time, she always lets me know when she'll visit and we make sure to meet once or twice while she's here. I talk to her a lot more than the one that stayed in our hometown, that's for sure.

I’m still friends with my best friend, we visit each other a couple times a year. I’ve also stayed in touch with a couple others who live in my area. Otherwise, I have no reason to go back to the town where I grew up.

With a couple of friends, yes. My life has changed a lot since then, but they have stuck by me and I’ve stuck by them. One of them is even traveling to see me next week (I live in another country now).

Yeah. Even with one dude I've known from kindergarten. We went on a road trip some years ago and a lady asked us how we knew each other.. I said that we knew each other from school but he cut in by telling her we knew each from kindergarten. That's when I remembered that I've known this dude from when I was just learning to read lmao

No , maybe one person

I still hang out with friends from my 20s.  Not all of them but there's no bad blood or anything.  Just grew apart as life went on.  Always happy to see them though 

Yes they are my friends for life... Over 30 years of friendship 💕

Not in high school. My constant circle of friends right now were from college, and yes, we schedule hang outs, vacations and they’re the people I can constantly rely on.

I’m 25 so I’m still in the early/mid 20s timespan, but no I am not close with any of them. USA

Nope. Either dead, prison or ripping someone off. With the friends I had, you didn't need enemies.

Yes, the friends I was closest with in high school are the only friends I am still close with anymore. I don't know how common that is. I don't think it's culture-specific. It's the effort you want to put into your other friendships after your school years. I had other school friendships that continued after leaving school, but over time, I stopped making an effort with those friends and they stopped too

1 friend from elementary that I would say we are distant friends, we hang out a couple times a year. 1 friend from university.

yup... and we're still hanging out...