Throughout life, there will be people that come and go from your life. Some of those people will have only been in your life for a short period of time, while others will have been there for longer, but it's inevitable that you wont have the exact same people in your life from when you were 6 to when you are 30. Unfortunately, some of those people who leave your life are people that you wouldn't have ever expected to. They were your friends, or even best friends. But like the weather, people change, and change isn't always for the best. Basically, friendship isn't always permanent, so when you do find those people who stick with you through thick and thin, you know its real, and you know you can always count on them.
I've learned the hard way that friendship isn't permanent. I've had many friend groups throughout the many stages of my life, like most people do. The friends that I had in elementary school differed from middle school. Then my middle school friends weren't my high school friends and so on and so on. This is a natural thing to happen, however, sometimes you will get lucky and find that friend that bears with you through it all, until suddenly they don't. Even the people who you thought would keep growing with you and join in on your life may just be passing through.
There's no contract between friends that says when you become friends that this is a forever thing. There's no set of written rules about what friendship is and how it should work between a pair of friends. This is all unfortunate because then people tend to take for granted their friendship or abuse it, which is sad to do to someone you once considered a friend. Unexpected things happen, and you will lose friends, but you will always gain them. Now that I'm in college, I don't hang out with my high school friends (also due to the fact I moved away for school) and I have a new group of friends I hang out with.
I'm also sure that once I graduate from college I wont see or talk to the majority of the friends I made (although I know there are certain people I definitely will), and I will move onto my next stage of life and make new friends there. So just because friendship isn't necessarily permanent, doesn't mean its a bad thing. It can be a good thing if you look at it in a positive light. This can mean that throughout your life you will have met and hung out with a wide variety of people who all shaped you into the person you are today, and helped guide you to what kind of friends you're looking for. If you're lucky enough to have those couple of friends who didn't just pass you by (like I am) then that's awesome. But just because you may not have the same friends as you use to, isn't particularly bad. It's a natural thing to happen as you grow up and learn more about yourselves.
