• IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    24 days ago

    I remember reading about something along those lines a few years ago.

    When we were kids running around with our childhood friends every summer, we thought it would never end, that we would be and stay friends forever.

    Then one day, we run home, wave goodbye and say ‘see you later!’ … and without us knowing, or being aware of it, that was the last time we saw our childhood friend.

    We might have lived next to one another, or went to the same high school later on or even went to the same college … we never saw our friend again.

    We never knew and we were never aware of when we said goodbye or saw our friend for the last time.

    I think about my old childhood friends … I’m middle aged now … some of those friends died young, some got married and had a bunch of kids … a few had hard lives and became addicts … one of them is a vegetable after having suffered an overdose … and many of them just went on and had small families and did OK.

    • wheezy@lemmy.ml
      17·
      24 days ago

      For most of human history children would be right to think this. Most people never left the town they grew up in. I think there is a bit of sad beauty to kids assuming they’ll always be friends.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    32·
    24 days ago

    I know someone who killed themself, his mum logged into his account to tell me as she remembered him saying my name quite a bit. That was not a conversation I was prepared for.

  • Cikos@lemmy.world
    30·
    24 days ago

    a close friend of mine from highschool died of cancer.

    last online 9 years ago, i miss those dota matches with him.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    15·
    24 days ago

    I befriended someone online through a video game and we became steam friends. We talked a lot about the game, but also non game topics. When one of us went AFK for awhile the other would check in and ask what was new in life. We wished each other happy birthday and holidays. One time I mentioned to him that my spouse would inform him if something unexpected happened to me, like I got hit by a bus or something. And I asked him to do the same because I would wonder forever. He wasn’t comfortable with it. But that guy is still my buddy IMO even though I don’t know his real name.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    9·
    24 days ago

    I run an online D&D game with people I don’t know IRL, and I just kinda accept that one day I’m probably going to have a heart attack and disappear, and that’s okay.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      24 days ago

      I used to play runescape with a neighbor from elementary school up through middle school. We even gifted each other membership a few times for birthdays.

      Lost touch with him in high school, except for one time he showed off that he was up pretty high on the leaderboards and doing competitive shit.

      Ran into him this weekend, it’s been like 20 years. Both had our kids out at a park. Caught up.on a bunch of stuff, but my dumb ass forgot to ask him if he still played, and what he though of the upcoming sailing skill release in Old School Runescape.

  • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    24 days ago

    I befriended this guy in an online game. Eventually we became friends on Steam and it turned out we both had a lot in common and we started playing a few other games together as well.
    One day he told me that he got a girlfriend, who he later then married. After some time they got divorced and he hasn’t messaged me since.
    I really miss staying up until 6 in the morning, playing long AoE2 and Stronghold Crusader matches with him.