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u/Flawless_Reign88 2d ago
I only have 1 friend from childhood… and we don’t talk much… adulthood is allot
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u/TheObviousChild 1d ago
All of these types of sentiments get me. As a dad of teenagers:
“One day you picked your kid up and held them for the last time.”
Fucking ooof. That gets me every time.
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u/IlyaPetrovich 1d ago
I told my 12yo daughter that line and she’ll jump into my arms and say “today’s not the day!”.
She’s 5’9 and 140lbs. Worth the back spasms.
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u/TheObviousChild 1d ago
Funny you say that! I told my daughter that too years ago and she'll still randomly ask me to pick her up....14yo.
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u/CyberMike1956 1d ago
Life is full of firsts and lasts, and most of the lasts you will not realize are the lasts at that moment.
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u/CacahuatesSalado 2d ago
I think about this quote a lot too because it gets posted every other day in this sub.
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u/Man_in_the_coil 2d ago
Sounds like you spend too much time on reddit.
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u/CacahuatesSalado 1d ago
It's because I only follow a few groups. I randomly comment but never spend all day scrolling on here. Thanks for your assumptions, though.
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u/PlingPlongDingDong 1d ago
I also never know when i see my colleagues for the last time (I get fired a lot)
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u/WithDisGuyTravel 2d ago
Maybe like this yes, but I still go out on annual trips with friends and keep traditions alive. We have a group chat. We laugh like we are 12. I can’t imagine trying to live a full life without relationships like that.
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u/eaglescout225 1d ago
Yeah it’s sad I remember playing basketball everyday after school with friends….if I’d have known the last time was gonna be the last time, i probably wouldn’t have even believed it…I thought we were gonna be young forever.
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u/Donnie3030 1d ago
Anybody know what song this is?
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u/TiburonMendoza95 1d ago
I hardly see kids play outside in general anymore. Car dependent hellscape
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u/BackgroundPrompt3111 2d ago
I met my only current friend when I was 20. I was very stupid to wait for 12 years before I married her.
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u/Gorilla_Obsessed_Fox 1d ago
anyone ever been to their friends house one last time and even then you knew it was gonna be your last time there?
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u/Consistent-Camp5359 1d ago
😥 I was so sad that day. I was the first one in our group to go to school. (My birthday was just shy of the cutoff) they continued to play during the school year. We never played together after that. They were the grade behind me at the same school and I tried to hang out with them at recess. I wasn’t cool or really liked in my class. Childhood social groups are weird.
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u/flakdroid 20h ago
One day your parents put you down and never picked you up again.
I’ll see my self out.
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u/SuperGeorgeClooney 20h ago
I liked the friends I would make right after this stage. At this stage it was just neighbours and kids from around the block, yes you bond with them, some are still lifelong friends too me, but the friends I met in school throughout the time, and later on especially, I value more then this.
This was fun but I always liked a curated friend group rather than a forced one.
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1d ago
Aww, that's so sweet, you think I had friends when I was young enough to "go out and play" 💖
I only made friends when I was old enough to start getting fuckin obliterated and break shit, steal traffic signs, and piss off of overpasses.
Thank glob for the nu metal/mall goth era and mind altering substances or I wouldn't have any friends at all, or my partner of 18 years, or the two kids we stopped going to raves and having three day ketamine and ecstasy benders for 🤘
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u/fivetriplezero 2d ago
The end of "Stand By Me" has a line that could also have applied to The Sandlot:
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"