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Find the Friends You Need, Leave the Friends You Don't

To all the "friends" who took your friendship for granted.

Payton Stillman
Sep 26, 2016
Missouri State University
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Find the Friends You Need, Leave the Friends You Don't

College is a time for growth.

Not just mentally, but person, and sometimes physically also. There are times where you might think you have all the people in your life that need to be there. You might be okay with a friend that does not push you and support you to be the best person you can be, but that is not okay. College is a time for growth because it is a time to find yourself, and find the path to the life you want to make for yourself. This path is so much easier with people who are on the same path so finding themselves and success as you are because they want to share the best and worst times with you. These will not always be the people or person you thought it was going to be and that is okay.

Freshman year for almost anyone is a blur, it's moving out for the first time, it's trying new things, good and bad, and it's figuring out how to make decisions for yourselves. These new experiences bring new friendship and that is a beautiful thing. Sometimes it means leaving behind friendships, and letting other friendships fade, but it is finding a way to not feel alone when this happens. Your freshman year friends will make you feel at home, and some will be the ones you keep forever, but others will be the ones you realize had themselves put first, and that you need to let go of.

Realize that your friends who come to you when you do bad on a test, are homesick, want to get ice cream with you at three in the morning, are the friends that will do this for the rest of your life. These will be the friends that are more excited than you on your wedding day, when you have your first child, or when you get the job you are currently working so hard for. Leave the friends that don't even call to make sure you are okay after a break-up, or even just a really bad day because these friends will come and go, but the ones that are your strength when you can't be strong anymore are your friends for life.

Do not give effort to those that will not give you the same effort in return. Find your people, find your happiness. Be great together.

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