Friends vs Colleagues

Well, i dont know if its an overstatement if i mention that i always have been thinking to write but my stressful present lifestyle doesnt really allow me to bring out the right words :D

Leaving that apart- Corporate makes you a different person. how does that sound?
When we were kids,  i dont know exactly which phase is considered that anymore with the present generation kids knowing so much more ( i sound like my mom now *ouch*).. coming back to the point. When we were small we thought anyone we met were our friends and thats how i kept thinking til the point i reached college. Now i'm working and i am having to face a lot of new ppl and am supposed to treat them as my collegues.

What does that even mean? Do everything together with them and stil act s if they are a nobody in ur life.. just someone whom we work with and nothing more. No attachments.

colleagues  (plural of col·league)

Noun A person with whom one works, esp. in a profession or business.

Well certainly not easy for a person like me who is friendly with anyone i meet. I think atleast a few ppl will deal with the same problem. Cant always talk about just the weather and office politics. After sometime there might be something more to talk and share about like self and interests. How much to talk? What not to talk? These are a few things am still left wondering about. I only came to understand the meaning of the terms friends and friendly and its differences(never thought there was any difference earlier) after getting introduced to the term "Collegiality"[yes that word exists :P]..

so can there never be friends at work? or even ppl who were friends before turn to being collegues after they start working together?!

still a mystery..

More to come on the lessons corporate life teaches :D