As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.
My friends just make fun of me in some shape or form.
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
When people ask me, 'What do you do for fun?' - it's my family. That's it.
I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.
I have the same friends I've had for years and the same family. Unless you love rock n' roll and Hollywood parties and having your photo taken, I don't think necessarily things need to change too much.
Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.
As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'