Real friends, how many of us?

Over the past few years, I've lost a couple of friends, not because I wasn't loyal or anything of that nature but because I was different from them. Before I couldn't understand because I was too young to realize the change that would eventually start to shift as I stepped into motherhood. With becoming a mother so early in my life my girlfriends whom I thought would step over into my adult life distanced themselves from me. It was like what did I do? How did we get to this point? Then I thought to myself if you weren't a mother would you surround yourself with others who had limitations to what they could or could not do because they held different responsibilities than you did at the age of 18? Probably not. When you are a teenager you want to be able to do teenager things right? (Yes, eighteen is still a teenager.) I chose a different route and it wasn't a route that everyone was too fond of but that didn't stop me. I was confident in my decision and I wasn't going to let the naysayers bring me down. I had to wake up and distance myself from who I was my damn self. I didn't want my creation to see me the way I once saw myself. I thought finally something positive was forming in my life and it felt amazing. Honestly, I'm not going to lie it hurt at that moment but it showed me who I was becoming, not who they were. Do I hate them? Absolutely not, what I've learned over the past few years is that it's okay to outgrow people, everybody goes through it, just at different times in our lives. Not to say that if you have a child your friends won't be your friends anymore because that isn't true, but having a child young it may be a little different. Still, it's okay, take that time to flourish, take that time to love yourself and that new friend you created, that friend that will never leave you no matter what. That's what I did. REAL FRIENDS will form and that sisterhood will be solid and unbreakable.