How my friend has changed

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I remember how simple life was back when I was still in high school. I would go to school, go home afterwards and take a nap after completing my homework, and then when I would wake up, I would eat something and hang out with my friends at the park to play. Those were the days, unfortunately now it’s more like go to school, go to work, do homework, and sleep for only a little bit. But to me the thing that has changed the most since high school has been the long close friendship that I had with Rolando Martinez ‘aka Roly”. While we were in high school, Roly and I were alike in every way and enjoyed playing the same sports and after school activities together, but it took for me to go to college how in fact, we are completely different. From the very beginning, I and Roly were buddies. Our friendship began when Roly moved next door to me, and our families formed a close relationship to each other and Roly would hang out a lot with me. I remember that Roly and I would do everything together from, doing double dates with girls, to playing basketball at the park, to hanging out with a group of friends. But as soon as high school ended, Roly became a completely different person. He never wants to do double dates because his girlfriend doesn’t like to, he won’t play basketball because is afraid of injuring himself, and won’t hang out in a group of friends. I remember a time back in high school how Roly used to tell me how I wouldn’t do enough of these things and that I should loosen up a bit. Funny thing is I took his advice and now he won’t do it, and when I offered the same advice he told me, he said that it’s stupid. Another difference in our friendship that I noticed after high school was that, we see the future in a whole differe... ... middle of paper ... ... very clear how the friendship that I had with Roly has changed since high school ended. The Roly I knew would hang out with me and his friends any opportunity he had gotten, rather than turning them down in a heartbeat. The Roly I knew would have maybe considered a better career choice than the one he choose because he didn’t want to study for too long, and lastly the Roly I knew would gone to place we liked, like going to Ultra with his buddies rather than staying home and watching it. Whenever I think about it, it kind of bothers me in the sense that a person that I was so close to, changed so much after high school, especially since I did everything with this person throughout all of high school. We still are friends today and we do hang out every blue moon together, and even though we aren’t as close as we used, we are still neighbors and we are still friends.

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