Friends

  In my fifteen years of life I've moved a tremendous amount, never staying in one school longer than a year. Because of that I know A LOT of people. I've met and hung out with all 650 friends on Facebook, and their mom, and their cousin, and their dog. But I wouldn't consider them friends (no offense) they're more like acquaintances. Which I don't mind too much, because I don't get along with most people anyway, but it sucks not being able to call anyone your best friend.
  A few years ago I moved to a small town outside of Houston, I didn't expect to like it at first because the few people I did know in town were spoiled rich kids. I made it through the school year with quite a few friends but never really did anything outside of school. That being said I loved the town. I have no idea why but i did. That was my seventh grade year. We stayed the whole summer and I really thought we'd stay until I graduated. The third day of my eighth grade year we moved again. That year I didn't go to school until second semester, my first semester was spent moving around, and finally after three moves we ended up in another small town about twenty minutes from the town I spent seventh grade in.
  I absolutely, more than anything HATED that school. The people were rude, the teachers and students only cared about themselves, the schools were gross.... It was horrible. Thankfully I only had to spend a couple months there. We spent the summer looking for another place to live and ended up back in the town from seventh grade. I was excited to get to spend my first year of high school with the friends i'd made in seventh grade. When I got there it sucked. Everyone changed. I just wanted to move again.
  I quickly made new friends all seniors/juniors and all from my JROTC class. That is the first year I actually had people I called best friends, people who were like my family. It was great! I can't explain how it felt to finally have friends I felt like I knew my entire life, friends I could trust. Then the end of the year came, and again we were moving.
  I decided I didn't want to start at a new school, with new people again. So I enrolled in Connections Academy, an online school. Granted, we didn't end up moving. So, now i'm in the same town but i'm not going to the school which is a pain sometimes, but most of my friends have graduated and there are still football games.
  I've always heard people say that after high school you'll drift away from 99% of your friends, and I never really believed them. I thought that if there were people you knew your entire life you wouldn't just stop talking to them, but boy was I wrong.
  I went from seeing people everyday to barely talking to them and it's different than when I would move. Because these are people I genuinely love, Hell most of them are still in the same town! I don't know why it happens, but it does. I am so thankful for small town football and Facebook, because without them I would probably never see anyone.
  Sorry for the long post but it was really on my heart today. I just want everyone to think about it a little bit. Don't take the time you have with people for granted because eventually you're not going to get the chance to see them as often as you do now.