High School Friends

I've been thinking about high school a lot lately and all of my old friends who I never speak to anymore. I suppose when you move to a new area with not knowing a lot of people around, you think about all of the friends you have had. In preschool and kindergarten, there was Lauren and Patrick. The three of us were inseperable or as inseperable as four and five year olds can be. In elementary school, my best friends were Afton and Ginger. Ginger lived with her family above their funeral home and we had a lot of fun slumber parties there - scary but fun. When we moved from Indiana to Ohio, I had a lot more friends. I was voted most talkative in fifth grade and started playing the drums so I was exposed to a lot of people. The friends that stuck with me through junior high and high school though were the ones I met playing drums. Brandon, Brett, Scottie, Kristan, Brittnay, Alex, Jenn, Jeremy, Lauren... all of them. The only friends that I still have from high school are Brittnay, Adam, Jon, Kim and Katie. Considering how many friends I had when I graduated from high school, that number has indeed dwindled.

It's strange and slightly depressing. As soon as we all went off to college, our friendships all just kind of faded away. It makes me wonder just how strong any of our friendships were to begin with that they could just end if you put some distance between us. And then I think of the friends that I have kept. Never for the life of me would I have thought that Jon, Adam, Brittnay and me would be as close after high school as we are now. In all honesty, after high school, I didn't even know if I would talk to Jon and Adam again while I certainly would keep in touch with Brandon, Jeremy and Scottie. But after high school, I never spoke to those guys. And Jon and Adam became and are two of my closest friends. I am grateful for the friends I have in my life because I know that these friends will do anything for me if I ask them. Looking back, I'm not too sure if my high school friends would have done that. So maybe we're all better off without one another in our lives. Maybe I needed to go off to college and then into the real world so I could find out who my real and true friends are.