Everyone has friends, how many does not matter.

Why do people have/need friends? Some need friends for their support through difficult situations in their life, "through thick and thin" as people say. But some people just need friends to have company through various periods of their life, like schooling, its tough to survive in school with no friends, no one to eat, study, talk or hangout with, hence people form groups of friends of their own to prevent having no one to do these things with. But at the end of the schooling days, how many friends still stick together? keep in touch or even remember?

Some just make use of people, to not be alone, sort of like having them around only when you need them, but once you move on, you forget them and how they helped you through your times on "being alone" by being your friends, some do treat everyone like their real friends with the expectation they would not be forgotten. I make friends with that expectation, or rather hope that I would not be forgotten after the days of however we bonded, be it school or work. But it never fails to happen, people do forget one another and forget the time and effort people put into that friendship.

An example would be if not for your friend being there and studying together with you, helping you, would you have been able to pull through the exams? If not for your friends just BEING your friend and hanging out together would you have survived in school being a "loner"? People do extraordinary things without even thinking about the effects, just following a friend to a bus stop could seem to your friend a great deal or friendship as he is willing to give up his time to wait for your bus before leaving. Its not needed, your old enough, but yet its expected in a way because friends help each other and try not to make each other feel alone or left out. That's the general belief at least.

Yet some make use of friends, they may befriend certain people to use them and forget them after their use had run its course. There are people who befriend the, say, more hardworking or smarter people just in their period of need when they require their intelligence or knowledge to help them pull through their work or school. But once the hard times are over often people forget those who have helped them through those times and don't even appreciate the fact people gave up their time and effort to help you.

There are friends who remember, and in turn become lifelong friends, such as my good friend, 7 years we've been friends and its through appreciation and understanding that we remained friends, I knew so many people that after experiencing so much together, after we go our separate ways and move on in life, they forget, I didn't really expect to be remembered like a king, but at least don't act like we barely know each other? Weren't we together as friends when we did those things? Were we just stepping stones, just friends for that moment before you moved on to a place where we no longer were needed?

Remember your friends as they would probably remember you. I for one remember my friends and the experiences we had. They however may not.
They have come, and gone. What does it take to be remembered?
Do the little things in life not matter anymore?