5th Grade Analysis

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5th graders don’t usually have much knowledge on the subject of friendship – I know I didn’t. I just thought that friends were people that kept your secrets and told you theirs. I feel like that’s what a lot of people thought. But that wasn’t even the truth then. The truth, inside of my 10 year old self, was that friends should be people who always keep you in mind. They keep you in mind even at times where it isn't convenient for them. In 5th grade, I was completely naïve. I thought that school was stressful, even though at that point, the most homework I got was two worksheets, (which quite frankly, I would die for now) I thought that a lot of people would be in my life forever, and I also thought that I would easily breeze through school. …show more content…

I wasn’t sure if they had changed phone numbers, so instead I managed to find her Instagram account. I looked at the date of the last picture she posted, and gratefully found that she still used her account. I used one of Instagram' messaging features in order to contact her. My message said something along the lines of, "Hey! It's Vanessa from Mahwah. We all really miss you here!" Either she didn’t care about her Mahwah past anymore, or simply didn’t use Instagram DMs. All I can know is that I watched her use the app to upload new pictures, but she never responded to my lame attempt to contact her. I was really upset about the whole thing. Was she really not missing her old friends as much as we all missed her? I don’t know for sure, but a large part of me hopes that she simply never got the message, instead of her getting it and ignoring it. I mean, she brought me to a house with 50 cats! You cant do that to someone and then ignore them a year later. I don’t remember much of what I learned in 6th grade, but one thing I do remember is that some of your friends might only want your friendship for their own benefit. Those

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