during your life youll make alot of friends some youll know for only a short time some if your lucky your whole life each of these people who brush your life help to colour it slightly and affect who you are is there a person you can think of who has done thiis ? is there somone your looking to be reunited with ? or perhaps its complicated or theres never enough time ?
you may think whats the point in this thread lol well its to get people thinking i went out of may way the other day to contact a few old friends and it was good to see them again so if theres any one youve been meaning to see or talk to do it sooner rather than later thats not an order of course just my opinion nothing more important than friends

I spent my early twenties doing extremely exciting and varied activities, meeting hundreds of people who were brilliant, kind, interesting, etc. Unfortunately at that stage of life I was deeply troubled and had barely any social skills and too many difficulties to be able to make lasting connections with any of the people I'd been gifted with meeting.

I bitterly regret having missed out on so many potentially inspirational and loving friendships (and a few men who I now realise really loved me, damn damn damn!) I was too busy being a 'force of nature' (translation - emotionally embryonic fruitcake).

Now I am a person in 3D, so to speak, I have all the qualities needed to take advantage of such a socially technicolour pageant as I lived through then - only it's all dried up. I just don't get to meet those sorts of people anymore, and I've tried to reactivate my life after long illness, but all the people I know now are 'settled', couply and breeding and don't have parties or a wide network of friends to meet. I've missed out on all that. Mentally I'm 25 and still in my party frock but there's nowhere to go!

I do often wonder what it would have been like if I'd been able to continue those old acquaintances. I'm not naive enough to think they would all have been soulmates forever, but I do feel that I wouldn't want to meet them today, as my life has been a failure and seeing them would make me feel ashamed of how I used to be. It's alright my current, newish friends doing the career and family thing, I can cope with that. But seeing old friends having done the usual progression would be too much for me. I prefer to look ahead now.

ive met thousands of people in my life, so far, been a busy boy :)

however i can prolly narrow friends down to 4 areas of my life
theres the good mates i grew up with (not seen any of em for a good 20 years or so :( )
theres the friends i made in my punk days hanging around town .......some good ones i still see occasionly (normally when i mangae to make it back to sheff)
theres the ones up this neck of the woods ive hung around with since moving up here (weve all moved on but see 1 or 2 occasionly as i moved villages again)
then theres the new area of my life.....WORK, :P i have a couple of good friends at my workplace, we hang out together, goto gigs etc, and ive only been there just over a year :P

and come to think about it theres prolly a 5th.....online, ive been online since 2000 and am a very liked character on a few forums that has a proper community....such as this one, going to real life meets etc
i have quite a few "friends" on these, prolly not as good a friends as "real" friends, but i have met some in real life, not on here tho....as yet