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I still hung out with my highschool friends through college, but then I moved away (2,200km) after college grad. I kept in touch with some for a while, whenever I'd visit home etc. (HS Grad '85 for context)
Then I just kind of had a different circle after a while, and lost contact with most of my HS friends.
Partly due to distance, and partly due to changes in lifestyle. I think that was the biggest thing. Some people move into different styles of living, and tend to have less and less in common over the years. For example, friends that I used to go hiking with in the fresh air of the Canadian rockies take up smoking and bar-hopping as a lifestyle, so our paths diverge. Things like that.
Now I have moved back to my home town, and bump into some classmates from time to time. It is interesting. One guy seemed really pissed at me when I last saw him, like something I had done really pissed him off. We used to be really good buds, but... Anyways I wondered if it was because of lack of contact that he was pissed ?
Some classmates that I did not know so well are becoming new aquantences and friends now. Life is just moving along.
My only long term highschool friend relationship is my wife ! I still see her every day :-)
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