Can friendship last a lifetime?

I used to have one best friend when I was back in high school. (Why am I using the past tense 'used'?) We were super close, totally inseparable. We were in the same class for 4 out of 5 years of high school and though we sat together in class, when we got home, we would spend another 2 to 3 hours talking on the phone! I don't know what we talked about but I remember my dad always teasing me wondering how can two people talk so much!!! I remember her staying over in my house and we would lie side by side and talk about our dreams and worries until 6am in the morning. Same thing would happen when I stayed over at her place. I would go over to her house and have dinner with her family and vice versa.

We were best of friends.

But somewhere along the way.. things started to change. I don't know if its just me or its the both of us but I guess we just don't click anymore. There are some friends that you don't see for ages and when you do get in touch, its like nothing has change. You talk occasionally and remember each other's important dates. But we havent talked in ages and.. I don't know..

She recently had a new blog and I was looking through her post and her pictures. She back in Malaysia right now and when I saw pictures of her with our high school friends, I felt really sad looking through it. I was part of it but now..

She also had pictures of her visiting around the world and I'm so happy that she is traveling around the world achieving the dreams that we used to talked about in our never ending phone conversations. But I feel really sad that so many things are happening in her life and not only am I not part of it, I am reading it through a blog to know about it!

I used to think that our friendship would last forever.. That when people talked about growing out of their high school friendship, it would never happen to me. That we would be together forever, attending each other's marriage ceremony, being bridesmaid for each other, having families together and so on.. But..

I know things may not be as bad as it seem or that we are not exactly sworn enemies but I know, things would never be as it used to anymore.

And I feel sad thinking about it...