In your opinion or experience

@Dusty101 Maybe they aren't true friends, or do you think it's something about you?

@NewKidInTown gotta be something about me... it's fine.

@Dusty101 Any idea what that might be?

@NewKidInTown me obviously

@Dusty101 Maybe too much dust in Dusty? I don't know...

@NewKidInTown that's a good one!!😀

@Dusty101 Thanks. You seem nice enough, so I dont see why your friends disappear on you.

@NewKidInTown ok I have one best friend who has been my rock since I was 17.
I reconnected with two school pals 6 years ago.
And that dwindled. I don't see them anymore.
I keep my work colleagues at work.
On here I have 3 or 4 close friends... some have left so that is why I said it's hard to keep them.
I enjoy being alone and I am a lot of the time. Which is fine. I do have a big personality but I can get overwhelmed in big groups of people. So that's really it. And I have no idea why the girls friendship from school dwindled it did hurt. But I'm not allowing it to hurt me anymore.

@Dusty101 Thank you for sharing all of that. It's really difficult keeping friendships from childhood. I think it's because people can change so much as theu get older, and the things you had in common as kids aren't enough to keep you together. I recently made the decision to cut ties with couple of highschool friends. When I say cut ties, I mean I won't be making any effort to see or contact them, as they never seem to make the effort themselves. Maybe they have already made the decision to sever ties themselves. Life is too short to try to be with people who don't want to be with you.