Thought Exercise: How Many Times Should You See A College Buddy Across 20 Years?

Let’s try to hash this one out quickly.

I am a firm believer that the “tiers” of adult friendship need to match for the friendship to be consistently successful —

Adult Friendships: The “Tiers” Have To Match, Right?

— but I walked my dog this morning and some thoughts came to me, so I decided to make it into a quick post.

I wrote once before about my friend Redding, who I don’t seem to speak to anymore and who never contacts me, which does sadden me:

Perhaps One Of The Ultimate Ghostings

Let me set some parameters for this discourse, then:

• We graduated from college in 2003.
• We seemed to have stopped speaking in mid-to-late 2022.
• So, that's about 19 years.