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Sometimes you meet people and forge friendships that last for life, sometimes you will meet people who are friends for a while and then fade from your life. I think this is just human nature and especially with people moving areas more than before is always going to happen.
Friendships forged for a lifetime are few and are so special. I have many friends who I have known for over 20 years (I'm 28 myself), but only a handful who I class as real lifelong friends. These are the people with whom you can go for a long period of time without contact, but once you are back in contact is like nothing has changed. The people you know you can call on at all hours with your woes and know that they will do everything they can to help and make you feel better. The people you can share your laughter and tears with, and reminisce about the old times with! There's nothing quite like a get together when you're feeling down, where you end up in tears of laughter laughing at your old fashion mistakes, stupid childish behaviour and silly decisions you have made. I think it is much easier to make these friends when you are younger, my group of friends I have known since is was 6, and we still talk at least once a week and get together when we can. Sometimes there's 2 of us, sometimes there's 20, but we always know where we stand with each other, and that we are going to have fun together. We relive our old memories and make new ones all the time. I think the friends you make when you are young, teenage and younger, are those you can always be yourself with, and the ones who keep you young. They're the ones who have been there through 90% of your life experiences, and will hopefully be there for those yet to come.

Friendships, as with so much in life are what you make them, if you want them to last forever, then they invariably will. There are friends you make at various stages of your life with whom you will share certain experiences with, those you meet through work, at birthing classes, evening classes, all sorts of places. It is nice to have separate friends for various reasons, whether you choose to integrate these groups of friends is up to your discretion.
With the current technological age, there is no need to ever lose touch, whether you stay in touch via email, telephone, social networking sites etc. In fact, it is easier to get in touch with old friends, with whom you have let communications slide, I have lost count of the number of people I have made contact with over the last 6 months or so, even if we never meet face to face again, it is lovely to catch up with their lives, loves and families.
Friendship is, I have recently realised, one of the most precious things in life, and usually a pleasure to make the effort with.

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