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Gabriella
Adult friendships require so much emotional labor. I’m reading about this right now and making good on my promise from several months ago to share my insights with you about it. As a child, friendships with peers was effortless because you saw them every day, so there was no need for effort to maintain them. I was catching up with my childhood best friend yesterday and it was so great. We spent about two hours rehashing the best parts of our lives together, and then we struggled to come up with things to discuss in the present. Without the daily gristling of life together, you can only mine the past for so long, and then there are differences in culture and experience that end up being big. Perhaps your friend is married and has children by now and you’re still a wanderer. It’s not exactly like you’ve “drifted apart” so much as you’ve both grown and evolved into people who no longer quite fit together in the same way. But that friendship does leave its mark on you, much like a favorite song and its corresponding lyrics that you never get tired of.
2026-05-07
Faith
Life is very strange. One moment you are building a fort with your best friend from third grade, and the next you realize that you haven’t spoken in years. For me, growing up wasn’t so much growing up as growing in different ways. My childhood friend loved soccer. I loved Harry Potter books. We went in different directions, no longer able to relate to each other through school or neighborhood games.
Now I live about 12 miles across town from where I grew up, and that is a huge obstacle in my attempt to reconnect with my old childhood friend. I have to plan a huge summit just to see him for a few hours. I go to a different school, hang out with different people, live in a different part of town. We are now two separate characters in two separate stories.
2026-05-08
Emily
As a more analytical minded person, I would say that the majority of childhood friendships exist based on proximity and routine. If either of these elements are removed from a child’s life then their friendships often dissolve. Research suggests that our brains prioritize the relationships we are currently in over those from our past, a natural human survival mechanism. My friend group from elementary school had even vowed to remain close forever but after middle school tracking we all went our separate ways. We were in different classes and soon the inside jokes that had once landed so well, stopped. We try to keep up with each other on social media, but liking another’s post is not the same as staying up all night at a sleepover. As people go through their teenage years and enter college, they also go through a search for identity. Their university majors also dictate their new friendships based on the field in which they are most interested. These friendships so often feel like relics of the past.
2026-05-09
Olive
Some of our closest friends we hold on to by accident. My cousin still keeps in touch with her kindergarten friend because she randomly runs into her at jobs in the summer or at clubs on campus. Meanwhile, my friend from dance class moved to Finland, and texting her is a hassle because of the huge time difference. I used to worry that I was losing touch with her, but that’s not really the case. She’s just not a part of my life right now. I worry that some friendships are just meant to last for a certain amount of time and then we move on. But the good ones are so worth it, and they can pick up right where they left off years later.
2026-05-11
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