With the years, it's harder to meet new friends and to create strong connections... It's not impossible, but it's harder... I also have 2-3 of my childhood friends that I keep in contact with and meet every summer... I did meet some great friends here on HIVE too, which is awesome, and it's great to hang out with them... I would put them in the third "category", somewhere in between those two you named...
Some of these new friendship grew a lot in the last 3-4 years, and hopefully more of them will... 🍻

Srecna slava, domacine! 🥂. (if that was the gathering for 😃)