My longest surviving friend has been my friend for 4 years

[Peegee]

And I think for most of one year I got mad at her and changed accounts in msn and blocked her on the other. This friend is EoFF's very own Bonnie.

It's true. I can't and typically don't keep friends for very long. I don't seriously expect to stay Chemical/Ashley's roommate for the 4 years she asked me to commit (it could happen! just historically unprecedented), because by then she'd be my second longest, still current friend of 5 years (and Bonnie would by then be my friend for almost a decade, if she actually lasts that long.

Honorable mentions include my roommates for 2.5 years who I don't keep in contact with, and people from high school, who don't really count because I never kept in touch with them, and saying 'hi' to the same person every so often doesn't count as friends.

My parents are in their 50's and 60's and have friends that they met in grade school. I'm like...WHAT how is that even possible and my head explodes, and goo comes flying everywhere. I think I have spiderman beat for most disgusting super power (spider goo is gross...eww).

Online friends do not count, because if they do I have a 9 year long friend from Texas that rarely talks to me, but we're on msn.

Honorable mentions include my ex girlfriend's cousin who is waay too young for me to be friends with, but whatever, since we don't talk anyway, my friends from IBM who have left IBM and we keep in touch every few months instead of every month, and a girl from my karate class who asked me to go to her high school prom, who doesn't respond to my '*poke*' openers to catch up on old times. I'd add her on facebook but we'd just shoot the smurf and stop talking. That typically ends up to be the case with me and my friends.

Do you have long lasting friendships with people? How the heck do you do it? I want some of your gypsy magicks.

[Dolentrean]

I have been friends with by best friend for 7 years, and friends with others for 8-10 year. Its easy, I care about them.

[scrumpleberry]

Jesus, I don't know. I don't think about how long I've been friends with people for. Sometimes habits you didn't care about before start to annoy you, and you just need to steer clear of them for a while and hang out with some different people. lol, analogies. But it's true, it helps me if I feel that a friend is pissing me off. I can't decide on my oldest friend, because I rarely speak to one of them any more, the other I wasn't friends with at all for a stretch of a few years, and the others I just haven't been friends with for that long. More than 5 years isn't really a challenge for me though.

[rubah]

I've been friends with tish and amy for about a decade now. We don't always see each other a lot or talk a lot, but it's kinda a quiet understood thing. I guess they're pretty close to just being family, but there's some people in my family that I would feel awkward with hanging out just out of the blue, but not these two.

I've been friends with megan and hannah for about five years, but I don't know how much we're very good friends still; I haven't seen them in a way that I feel bad about, and I feel that maybe they're changing away, whereas tisha and amy are eternal somehow.

[Blue Harvest]

I'll use my best friends as an example here. The first I've known for *thinks* 7 or 8 years now. We still talk (almost) every day, despite the fact that he moved 150 miles down south two years ago (bastard).

The second I've known forever. One of my earliest memories is of her. We don't talk that much anymore unfortunately (she moved away too and she's way busy nowadays) but we still keep in contact.

So to sum up, it's easy for me to stay friends with people. I'll probably still be friends with most of you in about 5 years

[Zeldy]

I've known some of my friends for 11 years now, nearly all my life xD and I stayed with the same group of friends all through high school. I'm comfortable around people I know, so I can be myself, whereas with new people I'm really shy and I have to make an effort to try and be myself, I'm always so paranoid that they don't like me or whatever. I hate making new friends.

[Balzac]

I've known my friend Dan for 24 years, we hang out nearlly every weekend. And my best smurfing friend in the world Leanne, I've known for around 6 years now.

[XxSephirothxX]

One of my roommates I've known since I was 4. So that's 16 years, now.

[Miriel]

My best friend has been in my life for 17 years. Even after graduating high school and moving 100+ miles away from each other, we're still the closest of friends. I talk to her on the phone nearly everyday and we make it a point to see each other as often as we can.

I love her like a sister, and I honestly believe that we're going to be a part of each other's lives for a really long time.

Most of my other really close friends come from high school. Which would mean that they've been in my life for 8 years now. Damn.

But yes. I don't talk to some of my other friends as often as I do with my bestest friend, but we still talk a few times a month, and get together whenever everyone is in town. In fact, I'm meeting up with a bunch of my high school friends tomorrow to celebrate my birthday.

I had a friend from middle school who I was really close to for awhile. But then she moved to another town and we lost touch for a bit. I met up with her again a few months ago after she moved back into town upon graduating from University. And it's like time hasn't affected our relationship at all. She still makes me laugh like crazy, and we're talking on a regular basis these days.

It's easy for me to lose touch with people, because I can be lazy. But once I get back into touch with people, it's as easy and natural as though we never lost touch in the first place.

[Vermachtnis]

I've been best friends with my best friend for about eight years. Met in the 6th grade.

[Kirobaito]

I have friends with whom I was in kindergarten. So that's 15 years. It's not that hard... we were in the same classes every year up until we graduated high school. They all go to different schools now, but we do things together during breaks.

[Sarc the Swordsman]

I didn't really keep in touch with anyone from high school, since none of them were worth knowing to be honest, too immature even after they finished school. Harsh, but true. However, my longest lasting friendship is three years - I've kept in touch, and meet up with a large group of friends from college almost every week.

I don't really have a secret to keeping in touch, we're just very committed and always make room for plans to meet up, despite work/studying.

[Muhyo]

Mine is... 6-7 years. Yep. My best friend. We used to hate eachother.

[Madame Adequate]

I've known my best friend for about eight years now. We tight, yo. I have several other good friends I've known for around four or five years. But I only make an effort for people I care about. Friends of convenience (i.e. we go to the same college) are likely to get dropped like a sack of bricks.

[Leeza]

I have friends from high school that I don't talk to for years at a time, but whenever we do get together we're still good. Maybe if we saw each other more often we'd see how much we differ now and maybe we wouldn't be as good. I guess I'll never know. I really don't make friends easily. My best friend I have known for about 18 years now. We just clicked and I can see being friends with her even if one of us moves away.