What you shared reminded me of the movie "Saint Elmos Fire". These individuals had this place they used to hang out together. They all experienced different life challenges and experienced different moments of friendship and letdowns. Then they all grew from these experiences and got to a point where they were all going their own ways. They looked at this hangout and realized, they all changed and there were now new individuals using this "hangout". That's when they realized they had all outgrown their hangout.

Sometimes a person tries to recapture that, but it's not something that can be recaptured. Instead it's time to move forward and find new experiences and grow as a person.