Childhood Friends

I saw a picture on Facebook (apparently this is where I get a lot of my thoughts lol) that said who was your best friend when you were 8 years old and to tag that person. I was about to share it and tag my best friend, Heather, but I realized that she wasn’t my best friend when I was 8. We didn’t become best friends until I was in like 7th grade. Before her, I was best friends with a girl named Kathy. I have no idea when we became friends since I don’t remember a lot from when I was a kid. But I remember a lot about our friendship. She lived across the park, and Id ask my mom a lot if I could go and see if she could play. That was back when people actually went to someone else’s house to see if they wanted to play instead of texting..well cell phones didn’t exist then. We had a lot of sleepovers and spent a lot of time together. I became really good friends with her sister too..hmmm I see a pattern lol. One thing I don’t remember is why we stopped being friends. I know that I went to Casselton to start 7th grade and she didn’t, but I don’t know what happened to make us have a falling out. The only thing I can remember is we happened to be getting off our respective buses at the same time and I said hi to her…I cant remember her exact reply, but it wasn’t exactly on the nice scale. I often wonder what she’d be like now and if we got to talking again, would we be friends again? I saw her profile on Facebook, and it seems like she’s doing well. Cant help but be a little sad that I had lost a childhood friend. There are a lot of people that are still friends with those they grew up with, and I don’t really have that. I have a couple, but that’s it. Grant has friends that he went all the way from Kindergarten to graduating with. I envy that in a way. He doesn’t get together with them very often anymore, but that’s mostly because he doesn’t invite them out.. I try to hold onto the friends I have now, but it is a little hard. A lot of us are in different directions or just are living life. I wonder if Kathy and I would be like that now too…oh well, such is life, right?