We all have that friend we met in high school that you became inseparable with and you start to plan your futures together. Going on family vacations together, going to Junior and Senior prom, graduating together, and going to college together, but then one day, that all changes. In some cases, it changes and we don't know why. I am still not really sure what happened, and I don’t really care to know. One morning everything was fine, we had class together, but by the end of the day, I was getting the silent treatment. I went home upset, thinking that it would all blow over, and little did I know how much worse it would get. By the end of the week, there were rumors started about me. I went home crying to my mom saying “when I wake up I don’t want to go to school, not because it's school, but because of the people at school”. I felt that there was no way I could make it through the semester, let alone the rest of the year. Thankfully, my parents saw how horrible it was and how upset it all made me. They helped me make the decision to transfer schools after Christmas break.
The rest of the semester was really hard. I went through the motions of going to class every day and not speaking to anyone. When Christmas break came, it was like everyone all of a sudden wanted to care that I was leaving. It was nice, but it was too little too late. Over break I hung out with some friends I already knew at my new school and realized how much better off I would be. Once I started at my new school, I am not going to say it was easy because it wasn’t. It is hard to switch schools halfway through the year when everyone already has their friend groups and sports teams have already had tryouts. But then after a few weeks, things got better. Way better. I started making new friends and going to sporting events and waking up and actually didn’t mind going to school. In a way, it all made me forget about what had happened a few short months before. And now when I look back on the whole situation, I am not mad anymore. I haven’t been mad about it for a very long time. Because if it was not for that day of the silent treatment, I would have never moved schools and been on one of the greatest dance teams in the state or met the friends I have now. And I have the best, most supportive friends that I am forever thankful for.
I learned a lot about myself through this whole experience. I realized that although we may think it is easy to trust everyone that comes into our life, it isn’t. I am still a very guarded person and there are a lot of things most people do not know about me. I know that my closest friends would never do anything like that to me or to hurt me, but there is still a part of me that worries. In some ways, I am thankful that I am a worry wart, because if I wasn’t, maybe I would not be as close with my friends now. So, to my friend that left me for someone better, I thank you. For if it was not without you, I would not have met the greatest friends I could ask for, or spent two years on an amazing dance team, and I would not be where I am today.
