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You walk into school on the first day back from summer. You’re saying hi to everyone you haven’t seen in a while, waving to teachers, finding your classes, and BAM! Out of no where, someone who you thought you knew walks right past you, and ignores you completely. People change, and it sucks. It sucks because it causes friendships to end, it causes fights, it causes things that people don’t like. People don’t like change to begin with, probably because it’s different and we don’t like things that we don’t know.

People changing, is something that we have to deal with as we grow older, sometimes wiser, sometimes not. Think about it, you’re stuck with the same 100 people all of elementary school, then you go to middle school and become acquainted with the same 500 people in your grade, and are stuck with them for seven years. Seven. Years. Grades 6-12 you’re stuck with the same people (unless, of course, you move or something.) But people are bound to change with in that time period (if they don’t, something’s wrong.)

They change because of their surroundings, because they’re forced to, because it’s just time for them to change, for themselves, for others, you name it. They change their appearance, the way they act, the way they talk, walk, laugh, the words they use, the way they smile, the list can go on and on.

Now, people change and become who they really are. It might be a process of trial and error before they realize that their hair really does look like a skunk, that shirt really is not all that flattering, and those jeans are tight in all the wrong places, but, they figure out who they are, what they want to do with their lives, what they want to accomplish, the basics. Sometimes, people who are friends for a long time start out with having the same dreams and aspirations, and then they begin to drift apart.

I’ve had one of my best friends since fourth grade (I’m now in eleventh) and we have most definitely grown apart. She has no confidence in herself, in any aspect of anything, and she got a new best friend last year, and they’re still friends this year. This new friend of hers isn’t all that bright. She isn’t unintelligent, but she certainly is not the brightest crayon in the box. She’s rubbed off on my friend, and made her act dumb because of her lack of confidence. She’s spacey now and unobservant and she really did used to be smart. I don’t like it. We’ve grown apart. And it sucks.

So, just remember that people can grow apart, as well as closer together, but no one is immune to time, and no one is capable of preventing themselves from changing completely as they grow older.

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Tags: change, friends, losing friends, people, rant