As a teenage girl, I've gone through my fair share of drama throughout my life. High school was kind of overwhelming with drama for me, and it somehow seemed to be never-ending, kind of like it followed me. For the longest time, I thought I was the cause of this because I never spoke up and just let whatever happened, happen, so that I wouldn't make anything worse than it already was. I soon came to learn that wasn't the case, and I was just surrounding myself with toxic people and toxic situations that came with them.

The main thing I tried to follow through with after I graduated high school and started college was to stay away from drama and people surrounded by it. And I'm glad to say that I succeeded with that. I stuck with my best friend, and made other friends that never put me in situations where I had to pick sides or isolate myself from someone. That was one of the best things I could have done.

Getting involved in drama is inevitable, it's everywhere. But you can try to limit the amount of drama you get involved in by removing toxic people and situations out of your life. Living drama free is so calming, and you feel as if there was a weight lifted off your shoulders. You're no longer worrying if someone's mad at you, or if you're getting thrown into something you'd like to stay out of.

An amazing thing to do after removing yourself from a situation that took a toll on you is to complete isolate yourself from it. If you took yourself out of drama, and something from it keeps creeping up on you, it just keeps making its way back into your life. After I got myself out of a situation, I had someone who still followed me on social media that would constantly remind me of what happened, and eventually did something for me to remove them off all of my social medias and any contact I had with them. And that turned out to be something I should have done a long time ago. No longer being reminded of what happened, or even seeing anything about that person, has been completely freeing and I finally feel as if I completely moved on.

The best advice I can give is if you're being thrown into unnecessary drama and you can't seem to get out of it, just don't let it faze you. It won't last forever. Your friends will either make up, or not, but that doesn't mean you have to take sides and isolate some of them. And if your friends don't accept that, they're not real friends. Try and surround yourself with people who want the best for you and are understanding of what you have to do to be happy in your life.

Remember: everything will pass. Nothing lasts forever. A negative situation will slowly turn into something positive. You just have to wait for the storm to pass.