How to (NOT) Dump A Friend

We all have that one friend who we have known for so long, and will always have a special place in our hearts for, but at one point you are smart enough to realize "This friendship just isn't going to work anymore..."

Now for some of us it's as easy as never texting them again and avoiding them in the hallways.

But, sadly, I live in a town called suburbia. A town in which children always play on the sidewalk, a town where the average house has the perfect 2-3 kids, a town where it's completely unacceptable to get anything less than an A+ on your report card, a kind of town where if you don't have a religion you are secretly looked down upon by all the soccer moms.

Also the kind of town in which you will see the same people just about everyday.

So trying to drop a person without them running into you and trying to make it work out is actually impossible.

However, one of the most unique qualities of suburbia  it that every kids goal in suburbia is to never ever go back, like if I end up becoming a teacher at my own high school, and raise a family in the exact neighborhood I live in now I might die.

So the truth is a person like me could tolerate a person for how ever many years they need to and after they leave for college, they won't have to speak to that person again.

One obvious flaw though. You have to wait years for this plan to take into effect.

Which just makes me wish that we could tell these people "Listen, it was fun at one point but lately everything you say to me is either unnecessary insults, you trying to look better than me, or just a shit load of your drama, and to be totally honest I don't want to have to deal with that anymore, so can we just be friendly with each other  Say hi in the hallways, maybe sit next to each other if there is no one else in the class we know, but I really don't want you to consider yourself so close to me because our friendship is really only making me an unhappy person."

But since us girls are so easily emotional that really can't happen, which hurts. Now you're stuck in a friendship that makes you feel like a bad person, and that isn't something you should do.

You shouldn't feel the need to be nice to someone if they make you feel bad, you don't owe it to them.