Friendship

We think one of the greatest things about being a teenager is the sharing, the closeness and the great times that you have with your friends. Friends are a big and very important part of your life. They are the first ones you run to with good news and definitely the first ones you call with bad news. They are the ones you spend most of your time with and the ones with whom you share your hopes and dreams.

Friends, or the lack of them, are also a source of great pain and suffering. Nothing hurts worse than the betrayal or the loss of a friend. We all have felt left out by a group of friends or not accepted by the "popular" group. And we all have been the ones to leave out others - although we forget that at the time, and believe ourselves when we say, "I would never do that to anyone."

We all have been guilty of hurting others as deeply as we've been hurt. It is just part of the process of learning how to relate to others...