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[tonofbricks]

So yes, this schedule is getting tough on me. Not seeing friends ever. Not seeing dad on the weekends. Not seeing mom during the week. But.. I'm making it the best it can be. It's a different kind of feeling. Not being able to see friends for a month because you happen to have other social events on EVERY Saturday: to me, this is no big deal. But

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[boundfornowhere]

I don't know how well I'll be at wording this but here it goes.

You need to chase your dreams, and in chasing those dreams you will make best friends along the way. I have two examples. The senior dance team at Glen Roc are people that I grew up with (so I basically know the inside of it). They take classes together seven, sometimes six days a week. They go to competitions at least once every month. Every waking moment they spend to chase their dreams of dance, they chase it together. Besides a few pairs of bffs, none of those girls knew each other before they started the team. I know that Lauren Brady and Amanda Minelli didn't really have friends in their high school because their friends were on the dance team. And that's okay. I mean, they had each other in school but school wasn't what was important, dance was. And they had their dance friends and they were content. People thought they were stuck up because they thought they were too good to be friends with other EHS kids, but that wasn't true... they were just in a position where it was hard to make friends outside of dance (much like your story). Also, I know from Skie that it's like that with the Express Swim Team. She's with those kids EVERY day for hours and she doesn't have many friends in EHS... not even on our varsity swim team, but that was okay because she had friends where she fit in.

In a nut shell, even if the few hours your in school each day sucks because we have (well will have by this point) graduated and you lost touch with the kids in your grade, it will be okay. Everything happens for a reason. And you'll be content with your best friends from the barn. You'll be in a crowd that understands you and you'll all be chasing the same goal together.

[tonofbricks]

I do realize this. It's just so hard because I see the people in my school more than I'll see the girls at my barn, since I'm only there on the weekends. But I understand what you mean in that we have a common goal that we're chasing, and we get to chase it together.

This week, though, I've been putting into my head the things you guys have said, and it's not really bothering me as much anymore. I realize certain people have certain friends; I also realize that I have more friends than the people I'm chasing so hard. So thanks to LJ, I'm feeling a lot better. :)