Losing Friends??? Wow!

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Specializes in Med/Surg n ICU.

Wow! This is a sore topic for me!!! I've lost some of my closes friends to nursing school:crying2:. I only have 5 months left and none of my close friends except 1:icon_roll. nursing school is time consuming!!! and we tend to establish close friends with the ppl in our class. With our nursing school friends we tend to eat, sleep, celebrate with each other 24hrs a day. They become part of the fam!!! i have two great friends from my program which i consider my besties :heartbeat. But its nothing like having them old friends the ones who knew u before nursing school:crying2:. I miss them but have no time to hang with them cause i am tryin to graudate in May. Have anyone been in this situation???:o

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I haven't lost friends to nursing school, but I see some of my best friends only once a year or every two years, as life/careers have taken us to different areas of the country. I may only talk to them only once a month or even every couple of months....but they will always be my friends. I know for me, when we do talk, it's like we just talked yesterday---that, to me, is a true friendship!

Don't allow time be a wedge in any relationship---life only gets busier each year!

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Yeah, it's sad when we sometimes get the cold realization of who our true friends really are (when we need them to step up for us). Sometimes what we need is time to focus on a goal or on other parts of our lives, and the true friends are going to give you the space you need and celebrate with and for you as you move forward in your life. Sorry about how you're feeling about your "friends", but be thankful that you have the true friends also.

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As life goes on, you whittle out the fair weather friends and also rans and wind up with a small circle of true, there no matter what friends. I have only three and none live locally. All are friends from the Military. Andy who owns a chater fishing boat in Hawaii (my wife LOVES when we go visit him). Duncan who is a patrolman with the State Police in Georgia. Julio who is currently in Iraq with a private security company. I see these every year or two. The last time we were all together was when we buried one of our friends in Maine. We had all gotten together up there just a couple of months before when he informed us he was dying of cancer.

The only friends I have that I see on a daily basis are my dogs. Shorty the Daschund and Patches the Border Collie.

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Specializes in Orthopedic, Corrections.

I have been taught that friends are like flowers, some are annuals and some are perennials. Some last a season and some a lifetime. Throughout my life, I have not really lost friends, just realized that some were not as good of friends as I thought they were. Sometimes I think there is something wrong with me, because I don't have that many good friends. But I was reading an article somewhere that said when it comes to friends, quality means more than quanity. I am a little easier on myself (and my friends also!) now. I also have three really great friends, and I consider myself a lucky woman. If your friends are as good as you think they are-they will wait for you to finish school, and you can pick up like nothing ever happened. Good friends love you no matter what, and forgive quickly!!!

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

If they dump you because you're busy for a while, trying to secure your future, screw 'em. You don't need "friends" like that.

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