the friend thing is usually seen through rose colored glasses, but the reality is losing touch is normal. I'm a little unique in that I'm still super tight with my childhhod friends (age 3 on). We still manage getting together only once or twice a year. People have families, busy jobs. Hobbies. One of my closest college age friends has a daughter my son's age and they're friends. We still don't manage seeing them more than once a year. I talk to these folks every several weeks, but the reality is *that when you consider 8 or so moving relational parts the difficulty becomes apparent.