Dear Queenie,
My friends and I started high school this year. We have been friends since we were in first grade, but some of them don’t seem so friendly anymore. They have made some new friends in high school and don’t seem to have time for us old ones.
I have made some new friends too, but I don’t want to lose the old ones. I would like us all to be friends and do things together.
Queenie, why can’t the old friends and the new friends all be friends with each other?—Teenager
Dear Teenager,
Probably some of you can. But not everyone shares the same interests, and people’s interests change as they grow older. You will find this happening all your life.
Try to get to know your old friends’ new friends and introduce your new friends to your old friends. Some of them will become friends with each other and some won’t. It’s a fact of life.
If you want to stay friends with everybody, you will have to learn to budget your time so that you spend some of it with each of them and don’t shut anyone out. And hope that your friends are able to do the same.
