Personal Narrative: Okay For Now

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I have noticed as a high schooler that people want as many friends as they can get, even if they don't like them. People will become friends with people just to be more popular. That was the way I thought before I read, Okay For Now. My view on friends has drastically changed.

In my freshman year of high school I wanted to have as many friends as I could. I was new to high school and all the popular kids seemed to have the most friends, so I wanted to be like that. I would try to befriend everyone. That is how I thought I could become popular. I didn't really enjoy my freshman year because of that. I never did anything with my friends because we were not close. This was my frame of mind until summer, when I am not with everyone every day. I wanted to read a book and the cover of Okay For Now really interested me, so I decided to pick it up and read it.

As I read it I began to feel for Doug and all that he did. But what really interested me is that he moved to a new town and didn't have a lot of friends. Now i've never struggled with making friends but I didn't do anything with them. I wouldn't hang out with them after school or go do stuff with them. As I got farther and farther into the book I realized that he only had a few friends and he wasn't trying to go and make a bunch of friends. …show more content…
I focused on becoming closer to a few of my friends. I am finding that I am a happier overall person than before and I am doing better in school. School is more enjoyable and I look forward to going every day. Being closer to my friends means that I can be myself around my close friends and feel more comfortable. The way I thought my freshman year was completely wrong. The more friends I had the worse I felt because I didn't do anything with them. But having closer friends makes people happier. I still am friends with a lot of people but I am closer to some of them than I was my freshman

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