You Know How Your Friends Are All From Your Childhood? Get Rid Of Them
Friendships are one of the key factors of our adolescence. We develop relationships with people, because these are the people who've helped us come into ourselves, watch us pathetically attempt to try things and fail miserably and they never left our sides during those periods of disgrace. We develop lifelong friendships with these people in a way that is almost blackmail:
"I've seen you be pretty weird when you were thirteen, so now you owe me to not let me be lonely forever after high school."
Probably not, so here's how to get rid of them:
Leave. Seriously, just got to a different college than them and start making new friends. Expand your horizons beyond the point of, "HAHA, we've been friends so long. I can still remember when you wet the bed. Let's keep rehashing that." It's that simple. You'll still stay in touch, but time will change that.
Do you really want the person around that remembers just how awkward you are, always telling people that fact?
Probably not, so here's how to get rid of them:
Stop interacting with their #tbt shoutouts online. The only reason this supposed lifelong friend keeps doing that stuff is because you like it. The memory of your awkward adolescence will never go away if you don't make it happen.
Do you really want to miss out on becoming best friends with someone else later in life because you're bound to this person from your childhood?
Probably not, so here's how to get rid of them:
Stop including them in your adultly activities. The melting of friendships caused a wrinkle in your life that you probably cannot mend. Just become a completely different human being that nobody recognizes to the point that person from your childhood doesn't want to be your friend anymore, anyway.
CONCLUSION: Although you keep getting older, that doesn't mean you and your friends should stay the same age.
Basically, the idea is that your childhood and the friends in it were great, but, c'mon: there's a whole world of friends out there you could be making, so why be tied down to some person you met when you were six or 16? You don't have to, although, I (the author) must admit, I've only got three friends, I went to middle school with both of them and we all live in different cities.
P.S. CONCLUSION: I'm a fraud that can't make new friends and has trouble keeping the old ones. Life is lonely.