Friendship
By: Sophia Rose

Why is it in our humanity, that people think we need a lot of friends. Then, if you only have 4 friends you are supposedly alone and don’t have friends.
Well I am here to say I only have four true friends I actually hang out with.
I have more friends at school and know more people, but only four that are truly my friends.
A thing about me is for some reason everyone trusts me, it could be my best friend for over 5 years or a person I just met, I somehow get to know their whole life story and what they are struggling with.
People have come up to me and said Sophia I’m so lonely and I only have a couple of really good friends.
I sit there for a second kind of dumb founded. Why is it that if we aren’t the popular person and only have a few really good friends then we are loners?
I, of course answer, and tell her: “You’re lucky. Wouldn’t you rather have a couple of friends you could tell everything to instead of having a bunch of fake friends?”
What I have learned is you can have lots of friends, but sometimes still feel empty and lonely inside. If you have even just one great friend that you can tell everything to and trust, you should count yourself lucky.
It took me awhile to realize this myself. But I am a true believer that you don’t need a lot of friends to feel whole inside.