to feel like I have less and less in common with friends the older I get, and want to make some new ones?

[Misspearshaped]

I am 30.

Most of my close friends are school friends or people I have known for years. I feel like the older I get, the less I have in common with some of them.

We still get on ok, and they are lovely people and it's always lovely to have a catch up with them, and I will always care a lot about them and I know they will always care a lot about me too and we would be there for each other if needed.

However I just can't help feeling that as time goes by we no longer share the same interests, attitudes, goals etc and I feel like I don't connect with them on a deeper level anymore IYKWIM and I would like to make some new friends who are a bit more on my wavelength.

AIBU for feeling like this?

YANBU

We all grow and change. I'm the same age as you and am quite different now to how I was when I was 16yo.

I mean, there's no need to completely drop your current friends. But there's no harm in seeking new ones with similar interests.

No I wouldn't 'Drop' the old ones :o

I think that there's a closeness in friendships when you're younger that is hard to keep up once older - by 30 lots of friends will have partners and children and they have a unit so don't need that close bond you have with friends - it's nice but not as necessary - so with all the stuff that goes on with jobs and kids and life it is easily dropped as the need for close bonds is being met within the family - it takes a lot of effort imo to keep up that level of friendship iyswim.

I have been going through lots of soul searching about friendships since having ds - really mourning my pre-baby life (although wouldn't go back) and do miss lots of friends that I can't see as frequently as I used to which creates that feeling of distance.