'Just people watching.'

It feels only seconds ago, I was ‘straightening’ my hair for my first day of secondary school, getting very nervous at the prospect of starting a new life. And now I’m seventeen; not sure which path of education to take next and watching I and my friends live different lives.

One of my friends has just got a first job, another is volunteering in Kenya, others holidaying in Manchester, Spain, Scarborough and another going off to University. But slowly, by natural ‘growing up’ my friends and myself are drifting away which is only natural right? But why does it have to be that to grow up, your friends must change? I find it a sad fact of life that we have to loose friends, but it’s something that’s becoming ever more apparent to me. Don’t get me wrong, I still have various close friends and I love all of my friends dearly, but there’s the odd few I’m seeing less and less of. And I wouldn’t change this, because it’s making them happy and it’s there choice (and I still get to see them from time to time obviously) but why does lift take us apart? Is it necessary to loose the people you love to live a ‘healthy’ life. Is it all part of our big plan? Or is it ‘just life’?

I haven’t come to a conclusion yet…. I’m ‘just people watching.’