Best Friends: Not Only are They Hard to Find, but Where Do You Look?

When your in high school, friends are a dime a dozen.  You probably had so many friends, and group of people that you would hang out with every weekend; with everyone seeming interested in you, and what you had to say.  Well, the wonder years are over, and now what?  Have you drifted apart from your high school friends?  How do you meet friends?  It's certainly becomes a lot harder than it used to be.

High school's over, and you all went away to college.  You most likely didn't keep in contact with all of your friends that you vowed to be "BBFE" (Best Friends Forever) with, or if you do, it's turned into a fifteen minute catch up conversation.  Often times a strange, and awkward phone call, filling you in on what's new in their lives.  Suddenly, you realize your not that important to them, nor are they to you.  Where do you go wrong, or how does this happen?

Well, the truth is, we grow up.  I know, grow up?  It's true, to some degree, we just don't communicate in the same way.  In addition to not talking, or thinking the way we used to, we may have things in our life that have made us grow up; being, children, getting married, or even a sophisticated job change.

It's truly an amazing thing to have a best friend, and not something I take for granted.  It just shows how strong a bond can be, even though the trials, and errors you may have encountered throughout the years.  Regardless of hurtful things that may have been done, or said between each other in the past, there are moments where friends can reconnect, and wonder what it was that they let get in between them.

Really, it may be nothing in particular, other than the fact that they were on different pages in their lives.  Did something happen to you, or them that drew you apart, or created no common ground of similarity?  Were you interested in different things?  All of these factors take a toll on your relationship, and can easily break apart any friendship.