Friendship.

What defines a friend?
Is it how much you talk to that individual? or perhaps how akin you feel with that person? or maybe even how much you trust him/her with your deepest and darkest secrets?
It all depends on one's own opinion after all.
I hate it when friends drift away from friends and suddenly everyone's like 'well, they didn't make an effort to stay in my life!'
If that's how you think, then i think that you need a serious reality check.
Stop being so selfish.
Friends are friends because no matter how far apart you drift you still have memories together that are unforgettable that serve as a solid foundation in which you can tread on forevermore.
I haven't talked to some people in years, yet i still call them my friends because that's what they are. I don't care if they don't consider me the same, does it really matter? it's my opinion anyways. Just because they don't consider you a friend, doesn't mean you can't consider them one. It's not always mutual.
If you're upset about someone not being in your life as much as you would like, then perhaps you should rethink some things.
Everyone has their own life. People change and move on. it's life. People come and go. If you can't find the strength to let them walk their own path, then perhaps you are just too insecure to walk yours alone.
Everyone has their own journey to travel, some paths may intertwine and some might go on to oblivion in solitude.
Just because you don't talk anymore doesn't mean you're not friends.
Just because you don't see each other everyday doesn't mean you're not friends.
It just means that you're considerate enough to let them be who they are.
Sometimes, i believe that there really is no such thing as a 'best friend' because honestly, if you think about it, we call those we hang out with the most our 'best friends'. But what if you moved away? what if you left those friends and went somewhere else? what if you made new friends? suddenly the ones around you at the moment are your best friends and your old friends are taken down from that ever grande podium of the title 'best friend'.
Why do we have to think so much about it?
Friends are friends.
They stay that way forever until someone changes that.
Friendship is not limited by distance (literally and figuratively).
If you dislike the fact that people drift away from you, then you need to wake up.
Because this isn't the place you think it is.
This is life.