It only gets worse through your 20s. For the most part distance with your childhood friends spreads even more, people you never talked to in high school become more friendly on social media, and you meet a random group of friends who become your new circle by your mid 20s.

It bothers me and doesn’t simultaneously. There were people I was significantly close to since middle school who switched up by our junior year of HS. Old friends being too good to speak or acting like they don’t know you out of judgement if you aren’t in the same place as them career wise, etc. that kind of s*** makes me mad because I have crazy good memories with people who think I’m less than s*** now I never had a bad altercation with. We just fell apart. On the flip side to this a lot of people go down dark ass paths and it’s for the better I’m distanced from them but it doesn’t mean I don’t miss them either.