Life Problems An Assessment of possible solutions to certain problems

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Have you ever had a friend who you really trusted and then suddenly something is different about them? This seems to be an average problem for most teenagers. After all, if people are going to change, they most likely change in high school. But what do you do when your friend starts acting strangely? How are you going to respond when they tell you that you have been replaced? Martin Luther King Jr. said “In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. This means that after all we go through; our friends are still a huge impact in our lives. One of the biggest problems that an average teenager goes through is when their ‘best friend’ starts thinking that they’re too good for their friend or that they have more important people in their life; but you can deal with this in three different way; (1) ignore our friends actions and what there are doing, (2) confront them and ask them about it, or (3) just to start avoiding their ‘best friend’. The first solution to this kind of dilemma is the just ignore it all together. If your friend isn’t goi...

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