Relationships Change Over Time: Friendships Change Over Time

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Leslie Lopez
Chris Tower
EN105-Unit4-Revision Projet 1
November 12, 2017 Friendships Change Over Time
Friendships change often, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. I’ve learned that there are two types of friends in life: the kind that when you go away for a while and return, it feels like you never even left at all because you pick up right where you left off; and the kind that when you go away for a while and come back, it feels like everything has changed. At times I find myself with a friend, who I have had a long and meaningful relationship with but is not particularly someone I can stand or enjoy being around anymore. Maybe it’s because they have changed or perhaps I have changed, and what used to make our friendship work like clockwork, is no longer there. …show more content…

I have my “childhood friends” group, the “party friends” group, the “acquaintances friends” group, the “fitness guru friends” group, the “coworker friends” group, and so on. The difference between the groups are extremely obvious. If you are a person with many friend circles, then you know that it’s not that you change from group to group, you just have parts that tend to be more prominent depending on which one you’re with. I remember being told by multiple people throughout my life that “people associate you with your friends, so be careful who you hang out with.” By now, I have discovered that whoever said that to me turned out to be annoyingly correct. People do associate me with my friends because my friends define me, don’t they? After all, I do choose them and I choose them based on what attracts me to

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