High school is hard. There are so many things that you have to maintain; things like grades, social lives, athletics, extra-curricular activities, etc. Because of all these things, teens tend to change friends throughout their high school lives. One major contributing factor is different schedules. If you don’t have any classes in common with one of your friends, chances are you won’t be good friends by the end of the school year. What is most likely to happen is both of you finding different groups of friends. That part is pretty much inevitable, right? Wrong.
Somehow, I found a way to maintain a decent friendship without having any of the same classes, lunch periods, or seeing each other outside of school. We barely even say three words to each other all day, yet we laugh, get angry, and yell across the school to one another. How is this possible, you ask? We play a game.
The rules are simple. The first one to say: “*Insert friend’s name here*, what’s up?” gets one point. The goal of the game is to get all of the points for that day, thus defeating the other. The beauty of it is neither person has to answer the question. The game just forces you two to talk in some way, and have fun together, thus keeping the friendship alive. If you try it, I promise that it will make you go crazy, which is what friends are for.
I know it seems stupid, but this game saved my friendship. Even though we don’t see each other all the time, but when we do, we have a blast. If this game didn’t exist, I promise you I would have moved on, and never looked back, but I’m now glad that I didn’t. The game made my friendship stand the test of time, now go save yours.
Somehow, I found a way to maintain a decent friendship without having any of the same classes, lunch periods, or seeing each other outside of school. We barely even say three words to each other all day, yet we laugh, get angry, and yell across the school to one another. How is this possible, you ask? We play a game.
The rules are simple. The first one to say: “*Insert friend’s name here*, what’s up?” gets one point. The goal of the game is to get all of the points for that day, thus defeating the other. The beauty of it is neither person has to answer the question. The game just forces you two to talk in some way, and have fun together, thus keeping the friendship alive. If you try it, I promise that it will make you go crazy, which is what friends are for.
I know it seems stupid, but this game saved my friendship. Even though we don’t see each other all the time, but when we do, we have a blast. If this game didn’t exist, I promise you I would have moved on, and never looked back, but I’m now glad that I didn’t. The game made my friendship stand the test of time, now go save yours.
Alex L. 
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