Friends can be the best and the worst people in your life. For me they are the best until we try and make plans. Plans are one of those things that we, after five plus years of friendship, can just not figure out. It's not as easy as some person sending out a text and telling everyone to come over whenever. In reality that just does not work. Within one group there can be all different types of people. The ones who want to go out, the ones who want to party, the ones who would rather stay one, the ones who never have anything to do, and the ones who do everything, there are one or two really opinionated people whose ideas almost always contradict, and the one who doesn't care at all and doesn't want to decide what to do because they don't want to offend anyone.

While I was writing this article I was talking with my friends desperately trying to figure out what to do. And let's just say that I spend more nights at home facetiming with them than actually going out. Here are some steps that I have recognized on how making plans can take you on a emotional roller coaster.

You see other people going out so you want to also.

Scrolling through social media, gives you inspiration to get off the couch and do other cool things that people are also doing.

Send a group text.

So you reach out to your friends, since the night is still young you give 10 ideas on cool places to go or things to do, and then you wait for people to tell you what a genius you are for coming up with all of these ideas.

20 minutes later you're still awaiting a response but you get a snapchat from someone in the group.

But then your hope starts to dwindle. You have already put on make up and did you hair but no one has put their input about your ideas; but hey at least you look good in your snapchats

You get texts outside the chat about the plans.

There are always those people who ask questions DIRECTLY to you, and not in the group, the group is there for a reason and that is it, so answer inside it! It just makes people confused because they know half the story.

Not knowing what to do.

There are so many ideas that you have but you can't decide what one is better than the other and your friends are not helping you. This leaves all the weight on your shoulders so if they hate it, you will not be able to live it down.

People expecting you to make the plan.

But since it was your idea you have all the answers right? WRONG, you asked your friends what they want to do and the best answer is I don't care i'll do anything, that is not helping you in anyway.

Select people not wanting to spend too much money.

But then the idea that you picked, and thought would be a fun memorable time, turns out to be too much money and then half the group doesn't want to do it. I get it the economy is hard but you are only young once you can always make more money but you won't be able to get these memories back.

Half the group making a plan, but the other half not wanting to go thus creating world war 3.

But you still want to go out, and a selective group of people like your idea too, so you start to plan to go out and you end up hurting someone's feelings because they can't go. You're stuck in a crossroad you don't want to hurt their feelings but you really just want leave your house.

People being salty because the group didn’t pick the activity they wanted to do.

Then when you think everything is about to work out, the one person who put in an idea that everyone else hated it gets involved. Saying that they will only go if they have their plan done and that's not fair to anyone. They are happy when they go with their plan but unhappy if they go and it's not, and that one miserable person will ruin your night.

People making last minute changes to the plan.

And then it gets worse. Now everyone has an idea? Where were they 20 minutes ago? 10 new ideas are introduced and you get lost in the chat. Some people drop out, new people come. But in the end it works out you have a plan that a lot of the group is willing to do and everything seems to be looking up.

No one knows who picking each other up.

Then the next big question is introduced: how are we getting there? Some people's cars only fit four people, some can't drive on the highway, some don't want to waste gas, some live too far, and the list goes on and on. Little fights start again but it's best not to get involved.

And nothing works out so you stay home eating alone.

You leave your phone alone for five minutes max to tell your parents the plan, and when you get back you catch up on the texts you missed and realize you are no longer going out in confusion you give up, order take out and hope that something will happen next week.