Year 9 -True Friends

A wise old woman once told me "Shriya, you won't find your TRUE friends until year 9 " Okay, so she wasn't exactly a wise old woman. More like my older cousin who is basically like a sister to me and my best friend. She said this to me in year 7, and I realize now how right she was.

Don't worry this isn't going to be some b*tchy post on me naming everyone in my year that I've been friends with. I just want to talk about how true it is and why. During the start of year 7 I mainly stuck with my primary school friends because I felt comfortable with them, but as the year progressed I'd joined various little groups of friends, and I kept growing out of them, or they kind of fell apart. And if you'd said to me then that I'd be hanging out with the people I do now, I wouldn't have believed you.

Not only have all my friends changed, but I have too. And because of these changes you kind of have to adapt into new groups.. The reason all this change has occurred in the last 2 and a bit years is because of bloody hormones. We all know what they are and we all hate them. They cause us to have highs and lows of emotions, and become different people sometimes. So here's some hormone science for you all :D 

"Researchers believe that a few main hormones are responsible for promoting feelings of well being. These hormones are norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin. Another name for these hormones is monoamine transporters; that is they carry important messages along the neural pathway in the brain. Where an imbalance of these hormones occurs, a mood, energy or cognitive problem results."

 "Norepinephrine is also called noradrenalin and behaves similar to adrenalin, in that it is released in reaction to anger or emergency."
"Dopamine is associated with euphoria and our desire or motivation." 
"Serotonin may help us feel energetic, calm and assured. Most mood problems are associated with serotonin imbalances. Because the vast majority of depression sufferers may have low levels of serotonin." 
Now, as scary as that all sounds it's part of us teens, and we gotta deal with it.

I know, since year 7 I have changed A LOT. And not actually for good reasons, I'm not quite fond of how I've changed and some of my New Years Resolutions are to try and change back a little. I don't feel completely myself the way I am not, and I know that sounds silly because I've just been banging on about how hormones change your personality but I'd like to just be a bit more confident with myself and be happier. 

So I think what my cousin said to me was true. Once your in year 9 people start to change a lot more, and you realize who your true and real friends are. And right now I love my friends and I wouldn't swap them for anything.

Just a quick little reminder to you all, this is the last day of our holidays, so I'm back to school tomorrow. I will try and blog later this week depending if the teachers don't bombard us with tonnes of homework.