missing the homie knightryan22 from runescape. hope you’re good out there king
I used to play runescape with a neighbor from elementary school up through middle school. We even gifted each other membership a few times for birthdays.
Lost touch with him in high school, except for one time he showed off that he was up pretty high on the leaderboards and doing competitive shit.
Ran into him this weekend, it’s been like 20 years. Both had our kids out at a park. Caught up.on a bunch of stuff, but my dumb ass forgot to ask him if he still played, and what he though of the upcoming sailing skill release in Old School Runescape.
I know someone who killed themself, his mum logged into his account to tell me as she remembered him saying my name quite a bit. That was not a conversation I was prepared for.
You make me cry an I’m at work right now…
I befriended someone online through a video game and we became steam friends. We talked a lot about the game, but also non game topics. When one of us went AFK for awhile the other would check in and ask what was new in life. We wished each other happy birthday and holidays. One time I mentioned to him that my spouse would inform him if something unexpected happened to me, like I got hit by a bus or something. And I asked him to do the same because I would wonder forever. He wasn’t comfortable with it. But that guy is still my buddy IMO even though I don’t know his real name.
I remember reading about something along those lines a few years ago.
When we were kids running around with our childhood friends every summer, we thought it would never end, that we would be and stay friends forever.
Then one day, we run home, wave goodbye and say ‘see you later!’ … and without us knowing, or being aware of it, that was the last time we saw our childhood friend.
We might have lived next to one another, or went to the same high school later on or even went to the same college … we never saw our friend again.
We never knew and we were never aware of when we said goodbye or saw our friend for the last time.
I think about my old childhood friends … I’m middle aged now … some of those friends died young, some got married and had a bunch of kids … a few had hard lives and became addicts … one of them is a vegetable after having suffered an overdose … and many of them just went on and had small families and did OK.
For most of human history children would be right to think this. Most people never left the town they grew up in. I think there is a bit of sad beauty to kids assuming they’ll always be friends.
