In high school, we all had that group of friends that we hung out with. We talked about the future and how we would all grow up together and never stop being best friends. It has now been five years since high school and I only talk to one of my friends from high school. It wasn’t because we all went to different colleges and never talked again, it was because I just chose not to talk to them anymore.

After high school, I instantly dropped the friends that I really didn’t like, but hung out with in high school because we were all stuck there together. As the years passed I just kept dropping more and more friends from high school as I gained new ones in college. All through high school I kept telling myself I wouldn’t go to my local community college because most of my high school was going there. I followed my promise to myself and went off to school two hours away from everyone. This caused the first break with my friendships.

I do think that the main reason that I stopped talking to most of them was because I was so mature for my age. When I graduated from high school, I was ready to be an adult, move away and not be part of the drama. It was two years after high school and some of them still didn’t have plans of getting a degree or trying to move out of their parents' place. I know that I didn’t have much to say because I was still at home, but I had plans to move out or go back to college to get a better degree. This really bugged me for some reason. I couldn’t imagine myself not wanting to be out in the world by myself and being an adult.

Once in a while I will go and see what some of my old friends are doing these days and I have to say that I am happy for them for whatever they are doing. I didn’t drop all of my friends from high school. I managed to stay friends with one of my girlfriends that I was best friends with in high school. We have been through a lot together especially after high school and have always been there for each other. We occasionally catch each other up on our old friends and what they are doing based on their Facebook feeds and think about how much people have changed in only five years.

I don’t regret dropping the friends I had in high school. I feel like I had different reasons to stop talking to them over the years. Whether it was just because I was sick of people acting like they were still stuck in high school or we both were just too busy and didn’t have time to hang out or talk anymore, I still think about them and check up on them to see how they are doing.