Old Friends

Oh my goodness, I just worked out that I've know my oldest friend for 59 years! And apart from marrying and having children (and that 15 years apart) we have nothing whatsoever in common, she's indoorsy, brilliant cook and seamstress, while I'm more than capable of burning water and can't sew for toffee - although I can paint and draw (she can't!). I've several other friends who I've been best mates with nearly as long, and again we have little in common. Perhaps that's the key?

I thought 35yrs of knowing someone was a very long time. However after reading many threads of loving friendships still ongoing after many more years, I stand corrected - friend and I are mere tadpoles in the pool of friendship

Glad to say I have some very good old friends from long-ago school days, the kind you meet up with after a while and it´s like yesterday. More lovely friends from work and hobbies too. And I thank heavens too for two treasured friends, not known for so very many years as some, who are the most marvellous women. Wicked, funny, kind. Sanity-savers.

Make new friends,
But keep the old.
One is silver
One is gold.

My oldest friend started infant school with me 64 years ago! We have led very different lives but now live a few miles apart. We have history!

I have today been out for lunch with three friends. We used to work together and have been lunching regularly for 30 years. Amazingly we are still all alive and married to the same men.

I have friends who went to Uni with me. Friends who I made when the children were small, friends from my working life and friends I have made since I retired. I have lost touch with some friends who moved away, and over the years a couple have 'dropped' me. I don't really know why some people really are friends for life and others fade out of the limelight. But, long term friendships are certainly to be treasured.

My oldest male friend still takes me out for lunch, we've known each other for 58 years. My oldest female friend I've known since college, 57 years. Very grateful to have them both, along with other friends, male and female, whom I've known almost as long.

My best friend and I started school together when we were 4 years old and we are both now 79 years old .Although she now lives abroad we keep in touch every week. Old friends are best friends.

During The Troubles in the early 70s most of my close friends moved to England or Scotland and have never come back. I still keep in touch with one of them. We always meet up when she returns for a holiday and have a meal and a drink together. It is so comfortable to slip back into a friendship that has lasted about 50 years.

2 of my other close friends that I met when the children were small died of cancer within a year of each other. I still miss them and have never really found anyone else who could replace them.

PPP - I thought your sentence read - Amazingly we are still all alive and married to the same man. It sounds better like that actually. Sorry about my warped sense of humour!

Lovely to hear about long lasting friendships..I'm fifty eight and I've already lost two of my dearest friends but life goes on and I've reconnected with a lot of old close friends and made new friends along the way who are all supportive.I recently had a total hysterectomy and everybody's been so supportive.

We have regular reunions with people I've been in primary/infant school with..many of them are still in the same village. I have two very good friends whom I met about 15 years ago through work, and some "mother" friends from the school gate. Many of my current friends are choir/piano friends.

I don't think I have many close friends, but the ones I have I like to keep hold of! I don't really "do" acquaintances.