[Thought of the song "Some People Change" by Montgomery Gentry]

If there's one thing that I learned this previous school year, it's that people change. Whether they change for worse or for better, people change. You meet new people and make new friends, though should still keep the old ones. These new people help form and shape who you are whether you realize it or not. They help shape your feelings, your attitude, and your character itself.

Standing on the sidelines, I've watched one of my best friends slowly drift farther and farther from me and closer to these new friends she's met. It's hard for me not to be bitter about the way things have turned out and how she's let these new friends change who she is.

I've realized that it's beyond my power to control other people's actions and to change who they've become. Yet, I still wish and hope she might yet become who she once was, and it's sucks, it really truly does. I feel like she's trying to change herself to impress these friends and to please them. Maybe it's just because I'm in a position that's biased...

I know I've changed as well and I pray that I'm becoming the girl that God wants me to be and one that will always be there for her friends. And I want them to slap me, HARD TOO!, if I ever start to lose sight of who I am. I don't want to wake up one day and hate who I've become.