how long do you know your friends?

eurotrotter

Just was thinking about this, how many people here have life long friends?
just do the pole,
would be interesting to find out if life long friendsship exist or whether 'friends come and go' as Bazz Luhrmann once said
I have different friends every couple of years,I have taken many different directions over the past couple of years,between different jobs, moving house, moveing from secondary school to college and so on.
What about you?

MayMay

eurotrotter wrote:

Just was thinking about this, how many people here have life long friends?
just do the pole,
would be interesting to find out if life long friendsship exist or whether 'friends come and go' as Bazz Luhrmann once said
I have different friends every couple of years,I have taken many different directions over the past couple of years,between different jobs, moving house, moveing from secondary school to college and so on.
What about you?

Same as you trotter....longest friend I have really is 4 years....people move, change jobs....even change themselves...my brother and sister have had the same friends all their lives but I'm completely different. Not that I mind, wouldn't really have much in common with old school friends now any time I see them so I'm happy not being friends with them.

Ruu_Old

One or two left from primary school that still live in my hometown that I see whenever I get the chance to fly back to Ireland.
I made a number of friends on my travels over the years but it was very short term not the to mention the "single serving friends" from flying so often.

Dizzyblabla

I've a friend since I was 4, one from the age of 12, one from 13, a few from school and college, but I don't see them much anymore now that I'm living in Norway. All my friends here are less than 2 months old

theTinker

Good idea for a thread.


I have no life long 'friends' left. Every 2-3 years, my friends tend to be recycled, not by conscious choice. Just random events, moving on, new jobs, college, people change, fights, etc.

I have one at the moment for nearly 4 years. Shes my longest friend since probably childhood.

scojones

I know my mates since we were four. I do have a few work mates, but that's obviously a different story.

Anti

I also have a few mates from when i was younger, about 8-10 ish. We moved around alot so never really kept in touch with the ones before. Others range form a few years to a few months.

Pepe LeFrits

Friends with my best mate since I was 12 (now 24). One friend since I was about 5, a handful of secondary school friends, a dozen or so college friends, a handful of post-college friends and a few brand new ones. Variety is the spice of life!

biko

I've friends in my home town that I've know since I was about 8, we still hang out whenever I go back. Then a mix of local/national, Irish/foreign, male/female...

robinph

What age do you have to of known these people for for them to be called lifelong friends?

The Bollox

I still chat with one of my first best friends, but we are no longer 'friends' as such.

the best friend I have at the minute I have known for 9 years, knew him from 1st year in secondary school

shane86

I have one friend that I have been best friends with since we were quite litreally 4 years old, just before we started school, knew this ****er litreally from playschool, so that is approachin nigh on 16.5 years. We have went from runnin away from girls in kiss chase in the yard to locked out of the bin tryna score birds on a Saturday night, from thinkin an adventure at 7 years old was walking a mile across the fields to the neighbouring estate for a fight, to planning Amsterdam trips and getting mad out of it at dance events and the Oxygen dance tent, its mad to think of how far we have come We have given each other a few beatings over the years (in the old days it was usually over a football dispute, over the past 4 years they have nearly all been bird +alcohol related ) but hey, brothers fight, and my mates are like the bros I never had (your man has one brother, anythime he has a few too many he constantly reminds me that he is family obliged to make his bro his best man, but that Im the godfather of his first child Swear, every time there is too much whiskey taken the line is uttered ). I often see the kids around the place playing their army games with their toy guns or whatever, and its mad to think of the stuff, both good and bad, that they will experience with each other over the following 20 plus years.

Apart fom that, re people I hang out with Ive about two other good mates from national school, about 7 from secondary, three from college and about five from an old workplace, two of who I see regularly. I have 3 best mates Id regard, my above mentioned mate and two from an old workplace.

edit- re the kiss chase thing, I just realised that some of the birds who chased us around the yhard and pinned us down for one back in the day are now fully grown birds who we have wanted to ride the brains out of since we were 12 Jesus what were we thinking running away way back in 1991

Anyone for a game of "mickey chase"?

Binomate

The vast majority of my friends, I've known since 2001, if not before.

little miss

Most of my friends are ones I made in college, but I'm still in touch with quite a few from primary and secondary school. Its nice to still be on good terms with people who've known me all my life, but its also nice to have friends who don't know how much of a brat I was as a kid!

copacetic

Binomate wrote:

The vast majority of my friends, I've known since 2001, if not before.

just out of interest, what happened in 2001?

Binomate

copacetic wrote:

just out of interest, what happened in 2001?

I don't really know tbh. I've never actually wondered why I've known all my mates since 2001. Anyone who I've known before 2001, I've known since 1999. Weird.

Femelade

i have one friend that i now since i was 4. We both have kids so we havent gone out drinking with ages with eachother, also we live in different towns, but we do call to see eachother every 3 weeks or so for a chat.
I have a gang of friends that i became friends with in about 3rd yr in school. we are all around the 27 mark now, and still meet up when we can, but more often that not there's always one or two that cant make, prob wont meet everyone all together until the end of the summer for a hen party for one of the girls.
Then my bessie mate is a girl i made friends with in college in 1998.
She lives in limerick and i'm in cork (she also has a child now )so we dont see eachother as often as we like but we do talk alot.

copacetic

Binomate wrote:

I don't really know tbh. I've never actually wondered why I've known all my mates since 2001. Anyone who I've known before 2001, I've known since 1999. Weird.

weird is right, you are freaking me out brother!

Alter-Ego

Most of my friends i've know since i was about 15. I'm 19 now. I still keep in touch with people from primary school but they're not really friends.

azezil

I noticed back in secondary school that my friends used to change every couple of years, don't really know why, at the moment I think my longest running friend is about 4 years, older former "best mates" from home have fallen out of contact, regretable but it happens...

When I left school I went my own way, one stayed behind the others went their own ways, I stayed in contact for a couple of years but when I found it was just me making all of the effort, I just started to make less and less and they've all but faded into the backgroud now.

zuutroy

Have known all my mates since we were about 7 or 8, 20 years ago. We've also picked up a few heads over the years. Would consider everyone else acquaintances. No real option in the poll for me!

deisedolly

I have a friend (not a best friend but a good one nonetheless) who I met in playschool, we went to the same primary school, same secondary school and just finished 1st year in the same college in Dublin (we're from Waterford and not many people go to college in Dublin) so that's a bit mad when I think of it! We are completely different people with completely different interests now but we still get on great.

I have known 2 of my best friends since primary school, and another since I was about 11. (that's about 7 years!)

The rest of the gang I hang around with I picked up during the teens and I also made some great college mates in the last year!
I would tend to trust the ones I know the longest although in the last year (because of leaving school, people going to college in different places, not going to college, working, new boyfriends etc) I'm beginning to learn a hard fact of life that things are changing and some friends mightn't be around as long as I'd hoped

Black Swan

Mixture of both.

Faith

I've two very good friends who I've known since I was 4, a handful from when I was 12/13 and a large group that I met when I started uni.

Duggy747

I'v known half of my best friend's since playschool which is 19 years and the other half for 9 years with the exception of a few add-ons to the group in the past few years.

frizzefreckles

I've known my oldest friend since we were 3 we grew up next door to each other and keep in touch regularly and meet up whenever we are both back in our home town. Other than that all my friends are friends from college, I'm changing jobs at the moment and don't know how many friends from my current job I'll stay in touch with - only time will tell

Sleepy

I'd know my main group of friends since I was 13 (when I moved to Galway), two from before that (around 8/9) and the rest I'd have picked up in secondary school/college/random jobs etc.

AlmightyCushion

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Ishmael

1 from primary school (Phase in and out of each others lives but instantly pick up where we left off every time)

3 very good friends from college

Tar.Aldarion

My friends range from a few months to 17/18 years.

DonkeyStyle \o/

"Friends"? h'wah? Like the TV show?

I've been best friends with my cousin for as long as I can remember and we’ve had different sets of friends over the years as in I used to hang out with her friends and for the last year she’s hung out with mine. We’ve also had the trail of friends over the year (3 of her mates actually) not liking that we were so close and trying various ways to disrupt our friendship
1 in particular succeeded when she got involved with my brother and stirred trouble between me and my cousin during one of the most important time in her life

I have 2 mate's from school who I hang with every week or so, we would talk a lot on the phone and go out a lot but we do have to make the effort at it as we all have different lives now to as to when we were in school and we also have very different friendships now.
I have an awful lot of acquaintances that drift in and out of my life also (people I have worked with or do work with) as I'm one of those people that is selfish with my time and if I don't rate them highly enough in my life then I'm not likely to give them much of my time
Call it ignorance or rudeness or whatever but it’s the truth

dashboard_hula

I've known my best friend (god love her) for 13 years now, and I'm sharing a house with her at the moment. I keep wandering off to weird places like Australia and Kerry but we always end up living close to each other or in the same gaff