Life Lessons

Thank you to the people at Oak Hill who have taught me many lessons about having good friends or even sometimes bad friends. I have truly found great people to be friends with at the end of high school and people that I can count on. My high school career has been a bit of a roller coaster I’d say with friends throughout it.

 At the end of middle school and then the beginning of my high school career I started to hang out with a pretty bad friend group such as backstabbing and they would always get me in trouble. My mom had sat me down and told me about these people, but I had never listened to her because I thought I knew better and I thought I was doing the right thing, but I was not. When you get into your later teen years you think you run the house and that is what I thought I was. They were really bad friends to me at the time. I didn’t know what friends were. It was scary going to high school with people a lot older than me. So I stuck with those people and it did not turn out good they never really became true friends to me. They had never stuck up for me or done anything to really help me out when I was in need. Like if I was going through something they would never really ask me if I was okay. So I wouldn’t call that a true friend. 

I chose them my freshman and sophomore year and then we got into a really big fight that was over that our parents had different views on situations that we were in and it kinda ended our friendship. Honestly I was okay with it because they had never really treated me the best and always left me out of things and it really hurt me to be like this for so long. 

After that I became friends again with my kindergarten and some of my third grade friends and they were a great group of people. It had felt like I had actual friends again that were there for me whenever I needed it. At the beginning of the summer entering my senior year we kinda had drifted apart because we all had boyfriends at the time because we just had spent time with them and didn’t really think about hanging out with other people other than our boyfriends but then in the middle some of us didn’t and then we really started to click then after that and that is when we became best friends. 

We became super close senior year and they are best friends now and will forever be because I do know what I would do without them. It is the middle of senior year and prom was gonna be amazing with them but something like COVID-19 had to happen and it ruined my ability to see my friends daily and it was all sad. We were not used to going this long without seeing each other and not having sleepovers with one another. Plus, not having a care in the world. Right now due to all this I am only seeing one or two and it breaks my heart to be like this because it was supposed to be our senior year and we were supposed to live it up for one more time before it was all over. It is okay because most of us expect for 2 to go to the same college so we will still be friends by the end of all this. 

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