Staying in Touch with your High School Friends

As you approach High School graduation, you make promises with all of your friends that you’ll stay in touch. You’ll text and call each other often and make promises to get together when you’re all home for the break. Staying in touch with friends from High School can be difficult once you each go your separate ways for college. It isn’t impossible, you just each need to make the effort.

First of all, you can’t just say that you’ll stay in contact. You need to commit to staying in contact. While texting is great, don’t underestimate calling. Hearing your friend’s voice and having a conversation can not only help with some of the homesickness you’re each feeling, it can also help you each talk through the stress you’re feeling with college. The worst thing you can do is to get busy and say that you’ll contact the person tomorrow. Because when tomorrow comes, you’ll say the same thing and that will continue. Before you know it, you’ve lost contact and it’s been a few months. 

Unfortunately, this is a very real thing. You start out saying you’ll keep in touch and then college gets busy and you lose contact no matter how much you said you would stay in touch. You’ll be making new friends in college, and while that isn’t a reason to abandon your other friends, it is a growth process. Who you become in college may be different from who you were in High School and while you may stay in contact, you may lose contact too because you may different and found that you outgrew your friends from High School. This can be quite a sad thing, however, it doesn’t have to be your story. You probably won’t keep in touch with every friend and acquaintance you ever made in High School. However, it is possible to stay in touch with your core group of friends. It takes more effort when you’re possibly in different cities, time zones, or even countries. You really have to commit to contacting and seeing each other. You don’t have to contact each other every day – sometimes just once or twice a week is enough to keep your friendship going strong.