My Friendships: A Life Changing Experience In High School

As rising high school students, we often exaggerate the idea of being in high school. Imagining it as a life changing event. Eighth graders often misjudge the idea of being a high school student. Some see it as chance for more freedom. In contrast, some see as a chance to better and mature themselves for the real world. As an eighth grader, I wish I knew my friendships would change, my academics would change, and myself would change. I remember on my first day of high school being extremely close with my friends from middle. As the day began to go we all met new people. Eventually we all drifted apart by October. We did not even realize it until we would see one another in the occasionally. As the year when some of our personalities changed; some for the best and some for the worse. As an eighth grader, I wish would have known that my friends were going to change and that we would not be “friends” forever. As the school year went on my friends drifted farther apart. I had met new people who were like me. Eventually by November I stopped talking to my old friends all together. Some of them stopped caring about each other. When I was an eighth grader, I wish I knew my circle was going to get smaller and smaller. I started becoming close with my small group of friends. My new friendships were much more mature than my past friendships. We began to hang out after school and Saturdays. We did our work together; something my old friends couldn’t handle. We developed trust in