Your five best friends at school -- how did they turn out?

[fluffythewondercat]

I was friends with seven other girls all through school to high school graduation. We were considered the gifted ones, so were often put in the same classes. Only one of us had a steady boyfriend. I moved to Washington DC straight out of college and never saw any of them again. My mother, the inveterate gossip, sent me unsolicited updates on their doings, which were generally not impressive. Two of the girls were cousins who stayed in our small town, got married, had kids and divorced. Another eventually worked in the same bottling plant as my mother.

One died at age 29 from brain cancer. Her small family unit had been obnoxiously we're-better-than-you when I was growing up. Her mom died relatively young from cancer and her brother took over the family motel business, often giving free rooms to transients. One of them bludgeoned him to death while trying to rob the motel office. I won't say I laughed when I read that but schadenfreude may have reared its ugly head a little. He had not been nice to me.

Curiously, I have never even been tempted to look up any of the others on the Internet.

[HappyFarm34]

Originally Posted by PriscillaVanilla

With the "broke" people that I know, many were well educated; but scratch the surface, and one finds out that their involvement in multi-level marketing wreaked havoc on their finances. MLM debt is often the skeleton in the closet that nobody wants to talk about.

It's interesting to see, ya think if they're well-educated, they'd know how manage their finances. Apparently, not always. I know of someone who has a basic accounting degree and has massive credit card debt racked up. He chose to work full-time in a fast food restaurant working barely minimum wage saying accounting isn't really his thing.

It's amazing how you'd think some people would turn out but don't.

[SunGrins]

I can think of four. My closest college friend was killed in Vietnam. The other three (from H.S.) have been successful and retired. I'm in casual contact with them from 1000 miles away. I've seen two in the last five years and the third might visit this fall. There's really not a whole lot in common after 50+ years. Most of my closest friends today were coworkers back in the 1970s or some I've met when I moved here a few years ago.