Losing Friends, Making Friends and Realizing that Expanding is ALWAYS Better

Friends can bring you down and friends can lift you up, but in the end you pick your friends only for your benefit. When one wakes up in the morning and realizes that they are the only person left in their group with good morals and high standards they find themself quite lost. They all started out the same, with the same goals and the same promises and the same route to look forward to. After the years they all went their own ways and then they all realized they were still friends only because they had been forever. In second grade a child picks someone as friend because they both want to play in the sand box, but people who played in the sand box together rarely grow up to have the same likes, dislikes, morals, standards, goals, and ideas. It's hard to realize that what was thought to be in common between two people no longer is, and it's even harder to think about having to make new friends in their place. Making new friends for the first time in ten years does not come easy, not to anyone, but expanding to meet new people helps the individual grow and learn far more than hanging out with the same group at the most influential part of life. Talking to different types of people can durastically change a life. Learning is crucial, but learning about the same things only prepares for a small portion of what's to come. Making new friends is, in my opinion, the absolute best way to learn about yourself. Even when it may seem hard to turn a best friend into friend and a stranger into an acquaintance, the experience is the best thing you can bring out of it.