Stay in touch.
This is the first and most important thing you must do in order to maintain your high school friendships. More...
Prioritize your friendships.
When you move beyond the corridors of your high school you can count on a few very exciting changes in your social world, you will form new kinds of relationships with others and what you come to see as your peer group will expand and evolve. More...
Blend the old with the new.
When you move out in to the world and form new bonds with new people it can feel like loving in two bizarre parallel universes, each starring you on the same stage but neither one fitting with the other. More...
Friendships are complicated but important parts of everybody’s life but good friendships are worth the effort it takes to maintain them. Don’t become discouraged when once easy going friendships suddenly become major emotional undertakings or when once important friendships suddenly seem trivial. The evolution of relationships is a normal part of your growing up and growing apart is the most common evolution that friendships experience. There is a saying, a life motto if you will, that fits here and you should think of it whenever you are feeling blue about a lost or changed friendship. It goes like this; “In this life only three things matter; how well did you live, how well did you love and how well did you learn to let go?” Life is about change and even difficult changes can be positive. Friends will come and go but all will teach you something about who you are and who you want to be. If you lose a friend rather than focusing on the temporary void this may leave in your life reflect on what you have gained by having had that friend in your life at all. It can ease the pain of losing a friend to assign it value and make the memory of the friendship a part of who you are deep down inside.
For more on after high school friendships see: How to Stay Best Friends After High School