Does catching up with old friends get easier when you’re older?
I’m still in touch with my good friends from kindergarten to grade 3 but obviously not as close as we once were. We’ve been apart for about a decade, with one of us living on the other side of the world. Every once in a while we’d all get together and it’d always be awkward at first. We could go without talking for 3 hours, even when we were 8 or 9. We didn’t get to grow up together and this makes me really sad.
My dad and I bumped into one of them today at a restaurant so we ended up joining her and her family. I could barely hold a conversation with her. But my dad was talking to her family like it was nothing. How do you catch up with someone when the person you were once close with obviously grew up a lot and is basically a different person? Some things haven’t changed but so many things have happened since grade 2 and 3. Luckily we still get a long but how does this work? Do we just start over again?
