In a lot of ways it's strange and yet, not so strange. The friends I made in College, I thought I would always be close to them, and now I realize that (for some at least) this isn't the case anymore. Should they or I disappear forever tomorrow, they would not mourn me, and I in exchange would probably not mourn them. (I'm not going to bring my being TS into this, it's too much of a loaded question then.)
But the new friends I have made, I hope (however much against previous precedents) that we will still be close until we have to part. Distance never killed a friendship, only people can do that.