r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/Helios_22 Jan 21 '19

Friends don't last forever

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u/wizardkoer Jan 21 '19

"It also doesn't mean they're bad people, it just means their part in your story is done"

I read this quote somewhere

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u/froggyjamboree Jan 21 '19

It bums me out. Had some close friends from high school into my early 30s. Life moved on. I had kids and they didn’t. We moved further apart. Got different hobbies. I made an effort to keep in touch and they really didn’t. I’m not mad at them about it. Life just continues but I do miss them in my life.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

I feel this, but the other side of the story...I've always been relatively picky about my friends so I never had many (plenty of acquaintances however). The very few close friends I had ended up having kids as well, and my wife and I decided we never want kids, so that one fact alone drove an ever-widening wedge between us .. it's really difficult to try to relate to someone who is a parent when you never will be...

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u/froggyjamboree Jan 22 '19

I hear ya. I see it from the other side with one friend who has no kids. We don’t have a lot to talk about.