{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-story-js","path":"/story/my-classmates-are-they-j/","result":{"pageContext":{"data":{"id":"-ed507ed4-51b5-5d50-bdec-65ee89ba93f0","authorFirstName":"JDC","storyTitle":"My Classmates: Are They My Friends?","photo":{"asset":{"url":"https://cdn.sanity.io/images/nr9digz2/production/553fd7fa537a1144bc05671bb5951e05b8404686-1500x1000.jpg"}},"audio":{"asset":{"url":"https://cdn.sanity.io/files/nr9digz2/production/d491581e2e50d3051fe134bac4e723039190d5a2.m4a"}},"secondLanguageAudio":null,"school":{"name":"2nd Nature Academy (SNA)","city":"Nashua","location":"New Hampshire"},"tags":[],"_rawText":[{"_key":"88cddccaadf1","_type":"block","children":[{"_key":"249a3a5a4b7c0","_type":"span","marks":[],"text":"When I was younger, every single classmate was my friend. It made me so happy that I had so many friends. Over the years, though, my friend group started to get smaller, but that was okay. As long as I had my closest friends with me, I was happy. But then a pattern started to happen, and this year, it has gotten worse."}],"markDefs":[],"style":"normal"},{"_key":"bdefb4d7b54f","_type":"block","children":[{"_key":"40435987636a0","_type":"span","marks":[],"text":"It started when my brother left my school when I was in fifth grade. I was really scared when he was going to a different high school because I did not know what would happen without him. Then, in sixth grade, one of my best friends left the school in the middle of the school year. That made me really sad. Then, another one of my closest friends told me that he was planning to leave the school. Now, this year, half of my friend group is leaving my school. It makes me super sad because it felt like these friends weren’t just leaving the school, but they were also leaving me."}],"markDefs":[],"style":"normal"},{"_key":"519b7bfc5add","_type":"block","children":[{"_key":"6857536bf95c0","_type":"span","marks":[],"text":"As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that people tend to get closer to other people that they have more in common with. For example, people of the same gender, race, and the same interests want to be with each other. I’ve also noticed that kids change a lot as they get older. I didn’t realize this until I learned it the hard way. Most kids will do anything in their power to be with their best friends, even if it means hurting the feelings of other kids like me. They also are very competitive with each other. And girls, when they get to their teenage years, are very sensitive to other boys in my class, like me. Next year, going into high school, there are going to be even more changes and even more friends, including more friends who will be leaving. This makes me a little worried, but I will still have some friends left at school."}],"markDefs":[],"style":"normal"},{"_key":"d50ad1b5db57","_type":"block","children":[{"_key":"44aa8b8d1f3f0","_type":"span","marks":[],"text":"I’m still learning what it means to be a friend and to have a friend. I’ve started to realize that as kids grow older, they can really change who they really are, and it makes me sad that sometimes we have to let some of our closest friends go to new places. I have a really hard time trying to understand people and getting messages from them or reading the room. Friendships can be hard. What I would like to see in a friend is don’t just leave me hanging and ignore me and just randomly stop being friends all of a sudden. Don’t tease me if I do something wrong or make a mistake. Let me share my ideas when doing a group project, and finally, have some of the same interests as me because I want to be part of conversations, too. That, in my opinion, would be the perfect friend. Even though I don’t have that kind of friend right now, maybe one day I will find a friend who likes me for who I am."}],"markDefs":[],"style":"normal"}]}}},"staticQueryHashes":["3309388390","890781507"]}