In High School, I have learned that you need to keep your relationships strong. You will lose friends because you could drift apart or you just learn that they're not your real friends. Real friends are the ones who stick with you no matter what and through thick and thin they are always the same person. The hardest lessons in life are ones that you need to experience for yourself and that is what I did. I had to learn who I could trust and who was not truly my friend.  We drifted apart and we are not and never will be the way we were. It makes me sad to think about it like that, but you always have to think of the positive side of things. When I start to think about the situation and regret everything, I think about what I have in my life now, and I realize that I may have lost some friends, who will always be in the back of my mind, but I have made some really good new friends. The friends that I have lost know I will always be there for them whenever they need me, and I know they would do the same for me. I love them and sometimes I wish we were still best friends. I miss them and am grateful for everything that has happened to me the past four years and I would not change it for anything.