Sticking With Your Real Friends

Popularity is one of the most important things to most kids at my school. Unfortunately, even I sometimes follow the “popular” crowd even when they go against what I believe in. I have recently been hanging out with one of my friends that’s sometimes treats me like crap. One of the biggest reasons I hang out with him is because when I hang out with him, I meet “cooler” people. This sometimes makes me feel better about myself but only for the time that I am with them. I realize now that the friends that make me feel better and that I have more fun with are the ones I spend the least amount of time with at school. I regret this and if any of them are reading this, I am sorry. I have been trying hard to change myself and become a better person. Hanging out with them does this for me. Like I said before, popularity is a very important thing to a lot of people, and I am trying my hardest to get this at the bottom of my list.

A Better Way

Sometimes, friends fight amongst friends. this is never a good thing. I recently had a pretty big fight with one of my friends. me and one of my closest friends really wanted to get it all resolved, so we turned to god for help. we had given our friend many chances and always loved her. we finally came to the conclusion that until she loses a friend. she wont be able to treat her friends the way they should be treated. we talked to her and let it be for about two weeks. we had gotten through to her and she reflected over herself and the way she had treated us. she came up and talked to us and told her what her conclusion had been: she had not treated us right and we have given her too many chances. i believe that you should love everyone and always forgive them. this is one of the most difficult things you can possibly do. that is the problem with a lot of people, they hold on to their hate. I had not grasped this concept before a very dear friend of mine invited me to go skiing with him. the night we went up to tahoe, we stayed up late talking about things that were going on in our lives. I was really touched by the passion that he spoke with. this made me really want to become closer to god and become a better person like him. without him, i would still be the same person with all the bottled up hate that I have been for a long time.