Life long friendship

I was in Hyderabad to meet my friends. We were meeting not after very long gap. We finished catching up very fast.
Then as usual we went into some interesting discussions. Ok... this time, for a change, we were away from censored topics and double meaning jokes. Thanks to Ajay's Parents.

I just challenged a concept of "Life long friendship". Is there anything called life long friendship?
Do people in today's world put that extra effort to keep the friendship alive?
These days friendship is like, you met somebody in college , that gets over after college is over.
In professional life, you meet friends, they also get replaced once the company you are working for is changed.

Everybody thought I was being unnecessarily very negative. But it was really thought provoking question. Isn't it?
I don't want to challenge any friendship or any relationship... But this is a general random question which struck my mind and which happens to be little negative.

Now a days, people are not putting efforts to save marriages, how can you expect any efforts from such people to save friendships??

This era is of easy communication with mobiles , chat,e-mails and now ORKUT.
It is so easy to keep in touch. Thanks to mobiles, we are reachable almost 24/7. But who wants to reach you??

I had so many good friends in my life. I thank God to give me such good friends.
But will they be my good friends always?

I have seen some of my friends putting that extra effort but it doesn't work one way!! Other person also needs to respond with same enthusiasm. Else eventually it dies.
It is very important to have friends. K.K.'s song "Yaaron" speaks so much truth about friendship (may be an ideal friendship).

Statistics say out of 100 people we meet, we get one person matching our frequency and that most likely becomes your good friend.
It just takes a call to keep your invaluable friendship alive..... so put in that extra and be happy for Life. :)