As I've gotten older, I've realized the importance of friendship. Friends have come and gone in my life, and not everyone you meet and bond with at a party will be a forever friend in your life. That's just what happens, and it's perfectly fine.

I come across SO many new people in life daily, whether it's my significant other's friends, work friends, or my parent's friend's kids. I'm constantly being introduced to people in life and personally, for me, I don't feel obligated to befriend every person I come across.

In today's day of age, with social media, it's so easy to feel closer to someone than you actually are. The minute you leave a party, a person you met that night is requesting to follow you not even an hour later. It's not that these actions upset me; I just don't necessarily feel the need to be "best friends" with every girl I meet in life.

The older I get, the smaller my inner circle has gotten. For me, it's hard to trust people and their true intention of friendship, so I like to keep things small and intimate. Also, friends come and go so quickly with all of the changes we go through in life. I've been close to a variety of different groups of girls in my life, and most of them have disappeared as life went on.

Sometimes, it has also been hard for me to feel like I stick in with people, especially after not seeing them for a long time. So, I like to keep my distance. It's not that I'm an anti-social person, I simply just don't care as I've gotten older. I don't feel the need to impress everyone I meet.

Some girls can be snarky and do things to be rude on purpose, and some girls are hard to understand enough to be friendly with. I'm all about empowering women, but I don't always feel the need to be close with all women.

People get so invested in who is following them on social media, who is liking their stuff, who is watching their Snapchat stories; and I'm just not interested. I have my sister who is my best friend in the world, I have work friends who are great, and I have some friends here and there that I talk to when I can. I'm happy with that.

There are always nice girls in the world to interact with and enjoy your time at a party with, but we don't need to be best friends for the rest of our lives. I will wake up from a night of being out and I'll have five new followers of people who look familiar, but I don't really know.

I'll never understand how some people's social media accounts are full of people they don't know or care about, but that's just me.

So, please, before you get offended that I didn't follow you back on Instagram, it's not that I don't like you. I just prefer to keep my inner circle close to me.