This I believe.. Essay final draft

Friends

            We all have those closest friends you can go to for anything. Whether it’s a whole group or just one, everybody has that one person they can talk to or do anything with. But what happens when you drift? You start loosing that connection that you once had. That thought you once had where inseparable was the only word that came to your head when you or other people thought about your friendship. Or that you were practically like sisters and nothing would ever break your bond. But things change and “Sometimes all you can say is, I’ve learned all I can from this person and we’ve grown all that we can together, and its time to move on.”

            Growing up, I’ve had a few best friends here and there but nothing like my friendship with a girl I met in 5^th grade. Although, we have been to the same school ever since we were kindergarteners, we never really started talking to each other when we reached the 5^th grade and that's where everything changed. We became best friends. And not only was our parents close, but we practically lived right next to each other. My apartment complex has three buildings and I live in the south, and she lives in the east. We would do everything together; go out to the pool, beach, movies, and have sleepovers non-stop. And since we lived so close and went to the same school, it was impossible to never see her. But it wasn’t always good with us throughout our friendships; we would sometimes fight with each other and go for days without even saying or looking at each other. However, despite all the fighting, we always somehow managed to make amends with each other and continue being close friends.

That was until we both entered high school and things changed dramatically. She was a band geek, being involved in marching band and the band elective itself and I was a computer geek, being involved in a MeneMac core. Two opposite things, that took up all our time and made us meet other people with the same interests. Once entering high school, we tried our best to stay in contact and to hang out. Simply by trying to walk home together or trying to make plans. But with our hectic schedules and two completely different lives, it never seemed to work out. And with no other classes together besides only CAP & Homeroom, we started to drift. From going to talking everyday of the week and hanging out on the weekends or afterschool to talking for the time we spent together in CAP & Homeroom, things started to change and so did our friendship. She had found her clique of best friends with the same interests she now had and I had found mines. Two completely different worlds.

The loss of a once close friend was hurtful, however, I found a new group of friends. Having three classes together and seeing each other every single day of school, it’s hard not to have close friends in the MeneMac core. Even though our friendship was not the best for a while with the rollercoaster of ups and downs drama of having people talking bad about each other behind each other’s back to leaving each other out, it all manages to somehow work out. But besides all the drama that goes on without our group of friendship, when we finally find time for each other and to just take a moment out of our hectic lives to hang out and have the time of our lives, those are the most memorable memories that are the ones you tend to cherish for the rest of your lives. Those are the moments that you live for. Those are the moments you never forget. And from the moment you have those types of memorable times and memories you know that right there is just the beginning of a long and great friendship.

And from going through all that I have the past 15 years, I came to the realization that “Not everyone in your life is meant to stay” and that “If they’re meant to be in your life, you will somehow find your way back to them.” That even though me and my elementary school friend drifted off, that maybe, just maybe one day we will cross each others paths again and become great friends like the good old days. And that the people I have met throughout my life that didn’t stay were just life lessons that makes the person who I am today.