2025/Natalia-

Growing up, one of the main things we care about is making friends. Making sure we have someone to eat with at lunch, play with at recess, and sit next to in class. It's a goal every child has to make friends. When you're younger just having the same color water bottle or having the smallest conversation automatically makes you best friends, it was easy coming with that is being a military child you come and go as the years goes by and when you're older there is a lot more that comes to the process, people take into consideration how you look, how you act, if you're attractive enough to be around, if you're fit enough, and if you act the way they do and only listen to the way they think. It doesn't matter if you have the same favorite color. You're lucky in highschool if you meet friends you can call your family. Some people don't get so lucky. They don't get into the “popular group” or barely make friends at all and it takes a toll on who you are. But it doesn't matter, people come and go just like you will and some people don't end up being who you think you are. Growing up I realized it's better to have 1 real friend who will stick by your side no matter what than to be in a group of friends who don't actually care about you.