[Idorsearogele]

I'm not sure if this is the right space for this thread, and hope the moderators will move it if it is not. I was chrismated last June, and don't seem to have any of my old friends left since then. I led a fairly wild life for quite a while; I began changing my life several years before I first found Orthodoxy, but have made much bigger and more decisive changes since then. Most of my old friends seemed to drift away naturally and painlessly over the last year or two but one, who has been my best friend since we were in grade school, is different. He is still just as wild as I used to be, but has made an active attempt to remain close to me anyway. We've both tried hard to find things we can do together, things we can talk about that will allow us to remain close without sucking me into my old bad habits. Despite this, I know that he is quietly convinced that I'm just "going through a phase" and will rejoin my old favourite activities soon, and so I am constantly uneasy with him. I hate the thought of rejecting him because he has been my friend for so long and I feel it would unfair to act like I am judging him for doing exactly the things I did not so long ago, but I am just not comfortable.
So, I suppose my question is, is it possible to keep your old friends in such a situation? Has anyone else had a similar kind of experience?