Growing up in a small town everybody knows anyone and everyone and who did what where and when; and it is true, small towns suck you in and you can never get out, although some of us can. During high school if another student did something Saturday morning everyone will know what happen that night. I needed to get out of that, not going to lie though, my senior year I began to like high school and I do miss it, but I needed to get out of there, I had to, there was no and's nor buts. My graduating class was a class of 57 students, that is small. I thought when I graduated I would keep the friends I had and the ones who were still in the school. My first semester in college I used to go home every weekend and see them all. But towards the end of my spring semester and during the summer I realized that I cannot keep doing that, so I cut them out of my life, which is why I only have my one friend since we were in second grade. She is the only one I have from high school who I also graduated with. Even when I go back to my home town, I am only there for her and even then we go someplace else.
At this point in my life I am a Sophomore in college and I am beginning to learn about myself and who I truly am. If someone does not love me for who I am, then I have to cut them out of my life; I do not want to be what everyone else wants me to be, I am finally going to be who I want to be. So far, I only have the one in my life. If I go on with my life with only her in my life, than that is alright. Having one friend who understands how you feel and loves you for you is all a person needs in their life. I do not want to have many friends and have them not know who I am and not understand me for me. It is alright to go back once in a while but that is not my story; my story is something I want to make and I want to be able to enjoy it. I do not want to be like those who stay in the town stuck with the same people who will drag them down and their children might do the same too.
This is the main issue with growing up in a small town, everyone hates it but they do not do anything about it. It is small and familiar to them, but in order to grow and learn about yourself is to move and travel and experience life through life. I want to experience this, and the girl I am still friends with understands that, she wants the same and that is the kind of person I need in my life.
