People Countdown

I am now very close to finishing with school uniforms and compulsory education, as they call it.
This got me thinking about how out of my friends, some will stay for another 2 years of fun school, and some will go wherever they may.
Now realistically, i believe out of the roughly 20 people i enjoy the company of every day into and out of that hellhole, maybe 2 i will have as friends for more than 10 years after next week when our last compulsory day of hanging out in the same place is. Then i went to a bigger scale, including everyone i know in that Devil's Den, and figured that i will only probably keep in close contact with another 2, maybe 3 others.

Now that approximate number of 5 are actually people who have constantly been there, no matter what year group, what classes we had, how busy we were, what country we lived in, and whatever else was going on, it didn't matter.
Out of those 5 that i wish to have as friends for more than 10 year after next Monday, i believe one will be my friend for at least 50 or more years, depending on when we die. I just wish that i had more time. More time to make those strong bonds with at least those 5, but maybe I'm wrong. And in 20 years time i will blog on here, writing about how amazed and shocked i am to still have those 20 sweet people around me.

I guess it's just a human cycle, that in 2 decades there will be other people to leave behind, other people to attempt to keep in touch with.

I'll tell you this though, I've tried the whole keeping in touch thing. Moving country does that to ya.
From now on, dear friends, if you need me, want to talk to me, please, be my guest. But see, it saves me those sad memories after we lose that loose touch if i don't try to keep to it in the first place.

Selfish, yes. Logical, yes.

Think about it, what's ruder, initiating that contact and then giving up? Or not initiating it at all?

Hmm.

***** Correction: 2 people, not one, i hope will be close by for at least 5 decades more.