Taking stock of my life

[Albertosaurus Rex]

And yes I know how that goes. In childhood/adolescence, you're around the same people everyday, year after year. Then when you leave and go to university or out in the real world everything is so much harder and so much more remote than it was when you were a kid. It's a lot harder to make many lasting friendships since everyone has their own problems or pursuits to deal with, and most fellow classmates only show up in your life intermittently, if at all anymore after a class is over.

You hit the nail right on the head there. If you're around the same people day after day for hours on end, you're almost bound to become friends with some of them. My younger brother and sister have started their first year of high school a few weeks ago, and already they're making new friends.

I went to visit a high school friend who goes to college in another town some weeks ago, and he said it too: life isn't like in high school anymore. You're not around you're friends every day.

I recently went out for a drink with another of my high school friends. He's the only one I'm really in regular contact with these days, and we reflected on the fact that we have known as each other - and have been friends - for ten years. It's a heady thing to have been close friends for so long.

I guess that my transition to the real world is still ongoing. Inch by inch...