It all started in seventh grade. By the middle of first semester, I could tell this year was not going to go well. My friends started to change and they left me for the “popular”peoplee at school.

“Friends come and go”, but you would never think that some of your closest friends would leave you. Thepeoplee who you shared secrets with, thepeoplee who you trusted, thepeoplee who sad “we’ll be friends forever”. Who knew forever could end so quickly?

Let me back a little. It all happened back in the seventh grade. My friends started ditching me because they wanted to be friends with the “popular”peoplee. I felt so alone for the longest time, or so it felt. My best friend did not have any of the same classes as me, so she did know what was going on. I bottled everything up. All the hurt I felt, things they said to me, everything. I never showed how I really felt.

One day, I just broke. I came home from school that, ran upstairs into my room, and started crying my eyes out. For a while, I knew what I was crying about, and then I didn’t. One thing my mom always says was “sometimes you have to realize who your true friends are, the ones that’s stand by you, and family is always here”. I stepped back and realized what I was crying about and what I was feeling was silly, because I knewpeoplee come and go but I didn’t know who would stay. But most important knowing family will always be there.

I do not really know if I overcame this because I hold a lot of grudges, which is no good. I still have not forgiven them, and we have not talked since that day. I am not going to lie and say I’m not mad at them, even though it was two years ago. I’m still a little mad, no because they left me, but because the emptiness I felt after that. That made me realize who my real friends are the ones who have you back no matter what happens in life.

I’m not sure actually overcame this problem. I will always remember that day, that day when I felt alone, empty. The day when I remembered what my mom always says “sometimes you have to realize who your true friends are, the one that will stand by you, and family is always here”.