There is a key difference between a friend and an acquaintance/schoolmate. When you graduate from high school, it is your friends that will stay with you and it is the acquaintances that will fade away. You will know this when you meet a certain individual who will ask you a question somewhere along the lines of “do you know a person named _____ ?” and if you happen to know that _____ person was from your high school, you now have two types of choices in response:
1. An answer in which you respond in relation to: ” _____ was in my high school”
2. An answer in which you respond in relation to: ”Oh, _____ is a friend of mine”
- If you chose option #1, the person of whom you named is with you every step of the way and your ties have not been separated. The person of whom you named is considered one who you still meet and talk to even after graduation.
- If you chose option #2, the reaction of which you chose shows that the person of whom you named isn’t of utmost importance to you unless you follow up with option #1. The person of whom you named has barely or have never talked to you after graduation.
- Lastly, if you choose option #2 because you consider all your schoolmates your “friends”, then you will never know the key difference between a friend and an acquaintance/schoolmate even after looking at this post. Go away.
