past tense

Does it happen to you?
Everytime when you see your old friends, be it on friendster, or facebook, or msn,
someone you knew(past tense) during primary school, secondary school or JC,
or when you hear them saying something you dont know of,
do you feel that you have distanced from them?

It's like you know them for quite a well already, and once you part with them, because of graduation and going different schools, doing different work, going to army, or simply, taking different paths in life, you feel like you never knew them at all?

It's true that its hard to keep a friendship alive, and actually its harder as the duration gets longer, but issit everytime you change an environment, you must change your friends too?

I'm particularly worried for some, and for me, that when we get old, who do we make friends with?

Those people we study with?
Those people we work with?
Those people we share the same hobby?
Those people who go out with us every day to shop, eat and play?
Those people who are not attached, have no grandchildren, fancy a game of chess with you and loves talking about the past -- what we could have done when we were young and what we should have not, what we could still do at that moment and what we no longer could.

Maybe I was just too quiet... thats why I didnt make many good friends.

Sometimes it's just very scary, to see how much people can actually move on.
Maybe I'm just too sentimental.
I had always been unable to part with the things I have used before. Toys, pillow, bolster, computer, wallets, stationary, handphones, clothes, software(yes.. I would have stayed at windows ME if i could, and IE 6.0 if it wasn't so laggy and virusly and buggy to the point I give up, but i still use IE most of the time now), house, bus I took, the path I took to school, and many more.

I'm a conservative person, change is like eating rice. I know its inevitable, and I have to live with it to survive, and its a everyday thing, but I just dont really like it. Unless, you could convince me, like how my mother convinced me probably during my childhood. (Im just using it as a example, i dont have anything against rice lol)

They say to see a character of a person, see the group that he/she is with, and to have a blissful marriage, find someone who thinks alike, understand each other, and have a common goal in life.
I think I have to start looking for people who have no friends. Just kidding. lol.

I think im just different, and most people, indifferent.