Friends.

'Friend' is a word with many meanings to different people. You can have best friends, close friends, not really friends but we will call them friends. Changing schools when I moved into 6 form cleansed myself from the first round of these 'friends'; there are people that I used to speak to everyday at school, that I haven't spoken to since I got my results in August 2008. However, there are a few who I may not see every week, even speak to every week. But when we have a little rendezvous it feels like I saw them yesterday! Any adult will tell you exactly the same; they have real experience in friends falling in and out of their life and only the ones that have a true meaning of a friend have stayed with them for life.

Once again, I left my 6 form in June this year, and the second bout of 'friend cleansing' happened. People I said I would 'definitely keep in touch with' have fallen by the wayside and when looking back nostalgically at my 6 form days I probably will sit there thinking 'oh my God what the hell was their name'! However, the people who really matter I have kept in touch with and reguarly see. I am determined to keep them when I go to University next year so they don't become another few that gradually fall off the friend bandwagon while I carry on ignorantly.

I could talk about this subject for literally another hour - the ins and outs of friendship, what makes a good friend, is your friendship one sided? like those incredible teenage magazines I used to read. The main point of my blog was to just outline how easy it is to lose friends and people you used to love everything about.

Listen up people!

Stop being too proud to contact them first, and petty enough to think 'well they obviously don't want to talk to me/can't be bothered'. Chances are they are just busy, and haven't forgotton about you! And will probably feel honoured you've thought about them and made an effort. And if they don't want to talk to you, or can't be bothered, then screw them! You probably have much better friends and they don't deserve you as a real friend.