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Duke
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States1106 Posts
May 15 2008 21:40 GMT
#1
The other day an old friend of mine called me and asked if I wanted to toss around a frisbee. He was my best friend through middle school and the first couple years of high school, but we just kind of went seperate ways. I thought it would be fun so why not.
Basically, he couldn't be more of a douchebag. He talked about sex and womanizing the entire time, and threw the frisbee at a bunny we saw. He somehow turned into a dumb jock and I couldn't be more disgusted by him.

Anyone have any experiences with meeting up with childhood/friends from the past? Have they changed for better or for worse?



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minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
May 15 2008 21:48 GMT
#2
LOL at the bunny part, it's so symbolic
Yes, I can relate

just ignore him from now on, I guess
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24775 Posts
May 15 2008 21:49 GMT
#3
I hope the bunny dodged it.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11597 Posts
May 15 2008 21:50 GMT
#4
wow I'm guessing your a senior in high school now, so just wow... i hope you're not going to the same college xD
Calendar@ Fish Server: `iOps]..Stark
MarklarMarklar
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Fiji1823 Posts
May 15 2008 21:56 GMT
#5
you should have asked quite seriously "why would you throw it at the bunny man? I mean what reason do you have for doing something like that?"

On the topic of my own childhood friends.. ive told people alot of bad things after meeting them, but only on MSN LOL
hello there
boss420
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Cyprus109 Posts
May 15 2008 22:03 GMT
#6
yeah my best friend since 4th grade, who i used to hang out with everyday for like 6 years straight turned into a complete dumbass too. now all he does is smoke weed/drop acid and date ugly freshman(he's 18)
Niji-z
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States208 Posts
May 15 2008 22:08 GMT
#7
Well, one of my closest childhood friends (age 6-12ish) broke into my house with a couple of his friends while my family and I were on a weekend camping trip when I was like a freshman. He stole my N64 and all my games, my dad's stereo, and tagged our walls with shaving cream (which didn't really come off). He started using drugs as well, so yeah. He turned out pretty bad. I haven't heard from him in several years though, so I hope he's changed since then.
Rawr.
nofAcedAgent
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States952 Posts
May 15 2008 22:09 GMT
#8
Yup I recently met a couple guys from high school I couldnt stand back then, now they are cool people..

Funny how people change - i wonder if he thought the same about you^^? - But hey at least he tried contacting someone from the past, I can think of at least 10 names I should really touch base with....ah life..
Pads
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
England3228 Posts
May 15 2008 22:21 GMT
#9
Yeah, my old best friend through year 11 of school (dunno equivilent, last year of compulsory education) just sits around all the time now and smokes alot of weed. An other friend smokes alot of weed, does cocaine, does heroine, does e and all this shit. People change. Sucks.
#1 Kwanro[saM] fan!
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
May 15 2008 22:21 GMT
#10
LMAO.
5/5

fucking hilarious blog. hes growing up dont mind immaturity.
BaDayOri
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)469 Posts
May 15 2008 22:30 GMT
#11
you shouldve noticed he turned into a fag when he first asked you to throw around a frisbee

I met my old childhood friend from preschool a few months ago and he turned into the biggest pothead i know...awesome
and no homo but you better show your boy respect, before the heck blow your head off like oral sex -CASSIDY
o3.power91
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Bahrain5288 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-15 22:33:13
May 15 2008 22:31 GMT
#12
My best friend in 5th grade.
He became my science fair partner in 6th grade.
7th grade we went our separate ways.
8th grade, we dont talk to each other so much.
Now were juniors. I forgot the last time i talked to him. Were completely 2 different people. Let's just say, some dont consider him a he anymore...

Edit: Since i dont talk to him anymore, i address him as a "he" when talking bout him
RoC)Ninjah
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States238 Posts
May 15 2008 22:49 GMT
#13
Bah, a great friend of mine moved far farrrr away, and sometimes 2-3 years later, messaged me on msn and gave me his myspace or something, and i read his about me, and it was all about drugs, sex, and drinking and shit, something i would have never expected from him. he used to be SO afraid of doing ANYTHING bad (his parents were psycho) but i guess people change and grow it. It's life :p
Much will win a title before his hair turns grey.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
May 15 2008 22:56 GMT
#14
this made me sad, LOL
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
May 15 2008 23:09 GMT
#15
my best friend in 3rd grade.
we became very close in 4th grade.
we didnt hang out as much in 5th grade.
we hung out everyday in 6th grade.
we were the best of friends in the 7th grade.
we didnt talk as much in the 8th grade.
we split ways in 9th grade.
we barely noticed each other in the 10th grade.
i moved, i did not tell him.
years down the road.
we dont talk to each other anymore.
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
May 15 2008 23:26 GMT
#16
I've parted ways with basically any friend that was close to me.

Best friend in 1st-3rd grade, we barely talk anymore.
Best friend in 2nd-5th grade, we don't talk anymore.
Best friends 5th-9th grade, they didn't talk to me for months before I left.
Best friend 5th-8th, he moved, haven't talked to him since.
Best friends 9th-12th, before I left we chilled for 20 mins and they asked if they could have my snowboard.


I have like 2 close friends that I still talk to, and it's rare. Fuck my life.
Peace~
Jin
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Canada439 Posts
May 15 2008 23:31 GMT
#17
Wow, I've known my best friend since I was 6 and we still talk on a daily basis. Same with another one of my close friends from high school. A couple of close friends I've had since Jr High I talked to on a weekly/monthly basis. I'm in graduate school btw.
^-^v
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
May 15 2008 23:51 GMT
#18
On May 16 2008 07:30 BaDayOri wrote:
you shouldve noticed he turned into a fag when he first asked you to throw around a frisbee


Dude.... frisbee is awesome. -_-
thoraxe
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States1449 Posts
May 15 2008 23:54 GMT
#19
If you drifted apart, how come he is talking to you and inviting you to play freesbee? Thats weird man.
Obama singing "Kick Ass" Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yghFBt-fXmw&feature=player_embedde
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
May 15 2008 23:59 GMT
#20
All my old friends are in mint condition, fresh out of the box...

err

I had no problem with old friends, they're just less ambitious now, no longer wanna be astronaut anymore, but they're all very nice people :_)
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
May 15 2008 23:59 GMT
#21
this made me sad, LOL

/agree

I don't wanna think about this shit :O
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
CDRdude
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States5625 Posts
May 16 2008 00:02 GMT
#22
Best friend from 1st to 3rd grade is kinda creepy now.
Best friend from 4th & 5th grade I never really talked to after I moved, don't know how he's doing.
Best friend from middle school, we drifted apart a a little bit during high school, but still good friends (just maybe not best friend). I haven't really talked to him since high school though. Most of my other high school friends I still talk to occasionally, more often in the summer.
Force staff is the best item in the game.
Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
May 16 2008 00:02 GMT
#23
I sometimes talk and hang out with one childhood friend when he is in town. Has not changed much tho, only difference is that he dress better and dont play football anymore.
But I guess I have changed more and it's not the same thing hanging out. I only have contact with two friends from highschool and earlier. Funny thing is both of them was in my class at 1st grade.
Kinda bad that I have not kept in tuch with more of my friends I have had over the years. Like when I went out on the town last time, I didnt recognise anyone and I live in a rather small town.
I have the best fucking lawyers in the country including the man they call the Malmis.
anotak
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1537 Posts
May 16 2008 00:15 GMT
#24
My best friend from 4th grade now does cocaine
H
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
May 16 2008 00:30 GMT
#25
My first best friend was abused by his father. He was socially repressed and always wanted people to be pleased with him, and he'd become outwardly depressed if his friends showed signs of disinterest. We didn't go to the same school - I met him at a one-day school for the gifted at age 7. He was fun to be around because he'd always like whatever I liked (not that I noticed when I was a kid) so it felt like we had a lot in common. Coincidentally, I met my current best friend at the same place.

Then at age 13 we ended up going to the same high school. I hung out with my old friends while looking out for him, because he'd spent a year going to school in Canada and said it was horrible (always got teased, etc), so whenever he appeared to be alone or awkward I'd show up and walk around with him during lunchtime. Eventually he settled in and we didn't really speak to each other much, except we'd occasionally go around to the other guys house on weekends to play games or do stuff. Mostly though I'd go around to my other friends house - he was smarter and more 'on my level' in terms of individuality and interests. We genuinely had a lot in common, right down to personality. I could hold discussions with him without being told to slow down.

Then at 15, I moved houses and schools to the other side of the city. I ended up a lot closer to my now-best friend, so that was convenient. In the last place I was living it was a 45 minute drive to his house. From here, I could bike there in 20 minutes or get driven in 10. My old friend still called me, as I had given him my number prior to moving. He left messages asking why I was ignoring him, and inquiries as to whether my mother was even passing said messages along to me. Eventually the calls stopped.

One day when I was about halfway through 16, I rang him. I got his incredibly hot sister on the line (which I have neglected to mention so far) and after a few minutes of talking I asked to speak to him. I told him I'd been swamped by schoolwork and that I'd never gotten to reply to his messages. I figured we could spend a day in town doing stuff. We spent a day in town but it wasn't really that great. He hadn't changed much aside from the fact he now had a car. So it went back to the former state of affairs. He didn't call me back.

When I was 17 and going to university, I had come back from town one night from a class that ended at 6, and the bus depot was pretty much empty. As I was walking over to my bus stop, I saw him. He was standing with his back to me with his arm around a girl, and followed by two others. I continued walking away from him and they eventually wandered off. That alleviated some of my 'concerns' (although they can't really have been genuine concerns if I never rang him to check up on him).

I look back on it now, two years later, and wonder if by leaving him I allowed him to realise that he didn't need me to be a normal person and that he could make friends and function fine by himself. My rational mind tells me that this is the guilty part of me trying to justify just leaving him by himself without telling him what was up. Another part of my mind tells me I should ring him again to see if I can get in touch with his aforementioned sister. But whatever. By now he's probably moved down south to go to university and is doing well for himself.

I feel like I should have made a blog of my own about this, but hey, you asked for it.
[iHs]HCO | のヮの | pachi & plexa ownz | RIP _
pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
May 16 2008 00:41 GMT
#26
people change. when you're always together with your group of friends, you all change together more or less in the same direction. when you separate, you will gain new friends, and you will change according to your new group of friends.

i guess this happens to all of us.
some people you got along with are now shit
and some people you really didnt like that much back then are now rather nice
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
May 16 2008 00:54 GMT
#27
that sucks, musta been disapointing to meet him.
I met a guy in second grade, were really close until freshman year in high school, haven't talked and then we hung out two weeks ago and watched harold and kumar 2. he's the same, which is cool i guess.
Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
May 16 2008 01:40 GMT
#28
All my old friends who I haven't talked to in years have mostly become gang banger druggy/alcoholics. Everyone I still hang out with (about 4 guys I've known since 3rd--4th grade) are all still pretty cool, and one guy who I talk to every now and again is emo whereas he used to be the most hyper energetic kid I've ever known back in elementary/middle school.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-16 02:03:59
May 16 2008 02:03 GMT
#29
On May 16 2008 09:15 katona wrote:
My best friend from 4th grade now does cocaine

Man, 5th graders can be rough these days.
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
May 16 2008 15:20 GMT
#30
On May 16 2008 11:03 Jibba wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 16 2008 09:15 katona wrote:
My best friend from 4th grade now does cocaine

Man, 5th graders can be rough these days.

LOL
Peace~
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