Friendship In High School

High school is a world full of hate, fear, anxiety, stress, emotion, and embarrassment. It has never made much senses to me why the movies make high school seem like a place of perfect-pitched, random outbursts of happy songs. Mean words are spoken and tears are shed. Coaches will yell at you to the point of giving up and crawling under a rock. Girls are especially brutal in high school. There is a constant and complex social network in every girl’s mind 24/7 whether young or old, teacher or student. Boy drama, girl drama, gay drama, sexual jealousy, and drunken abuse is lurking behind the scenes in life, immensely much in high school. Each person comes out affected, with a little more gravel in the gut and spit in the eye. The only reason …show more content…
I’ve been the best friend to many and then suddenly none at all. I’ve been the girl who surrounds herself with guys to avoid the contention and he-said she-said gossip that comes with girls and I have also been the girlfriend. Along with the years came the knowledge that friendship is essential to this high school world. I thrive of friendship not only through social media, but through simply walking the halls and finding a “circle” to belong to. I need friends to feel like I fit in, and to feel needed and appreciated. Somehow, by the grace of God, I have managed to keep many friendships with various people when all around me I see crumbling relationships. I have seen several tender hearts get broken, my own included, as a result of failing …show more content…
In my experience it has been jealousy but not in the “he’s mine” sense but more that friendships suffer when a guy comes into the picture. Also there is a sadness that one friend has a boyfriend and the other doesn’t. Perhaps this has been the most trying friendship experience yet. When I started dating, I soon found that my boyfriend became my best friend in many ways that my other friends couldn’t. I still value my friends but I didn’t show it very well. I left my friends to go their own way and do their own thing. My weekends were full of dates instead of nerdy board games. I soon was consumed trying to find a balance in my social life that would please all and somehow leave none offended. This equation is incomputable. A wide separation came between my friends and then we lost each other for a while. Those were some of the most heart wrenching months in all my high school years. Eventually after I tried and tried to re-build the broken bridge between my old friends without success, after these taxing weeks, I came to realize that if my friends want to remain my friends then they need to put forth an effort the same way I did. After I accepted this as truth I was able to move on. I still talk too many of these friends. Some more than others, but time was needed to restore our friendships, nothing can force