I`m glad that you love your friends, love your neighbor is the command of Our Lord, it is a great thing.
You have asked me once if I had a lot of friends at school when I was around your age, if I had have playdates....and answering your questions and adding some more, I loved school, my best time of my life in my home country I spent at school, great memories. I loved so much school that I did not like weekends and school breaks, I got depressed when I did not have school. I enjoyed to meet new people at school and made friends easy, but I kept my friends at school. At elementary school I had very few playdates with them, and during my high school time I had once or two get-together with them, it was very rare to to meet them outside school. My mom did not let us have so many playdates, and the high school classmates never called me. My routine outside school was going to Mass with my family and visit maternal grandparents on Sundays. Sometimes once a month or every two months we went to the beach as a family. When I was a kid I used to play with my old sister Meire, I did not play so much with my youngest, she was too small. When I became a teen, I was very lonely, my older sis did not want to be around me anymore, she preferred to have her own friends and i was left alone.
You know, when I graduated from high school I was really depressed, I lost contact with a friend that I considered to be my best friend, but then I found out she did not consider me as her best friend or even a close friend, she did not care about me at all, she just wanted to get some stuff from me...years later after I got married and moved to America I tried to contact her, and i was even more disappointed, she did not change at all, she just wanted to get something from me, material things and also to help her to come here.
Now back to my late teens, I was depressed and lonely after high school, i tried to contact my old friends from elementary school, and this did not work out at all...why? well, i was the only one who called...i was the only one who cared...i was the only one visiting them. I was just begging for their friendship. Then I came to my senses and i said to myself" That is enough ! I have my family who loves me. I`ll look for a job. I`ll keep myself busy with my hobbies. I`ll be happy someday. I `ll get a husband who will love me who will be my best friend." I believe in God, I knew God would help me, and He did, because I put all my trust in God.
Sometimes the parents(mom and dad) don`t approve some of your friends. It happens when we don`t trust them. When we know they are abusive. Who have no respect for their parents and for authority. Who are bad company, very low morals and immorality, drugs, drunker, tattoos all over the body, gangs. Who are haters of the Catholic Church. Haters of Christianity. Who are into gay agenda and abortion, fornication (sex before marriage) and all the rest.
My dear child, a good friend gives us peace in our heart, it is a good sign from God. When we don`t have that peace so we have to break that friendship. It`s painful, but it is the right thing to do. You have a beautiful soul, you deserve to have respect and be loved, but we can not force them out, you know, sometimes it is better to be alone than have bad friends who put us in risks for our body, mind and soul.
Always remember, God is alive and He wants the best for you. He wants you be happy, if not in this life so it will be in the next. Walk with God, and He will send you very good friends, with good morals and values. Look after my example, after I started to come to daily mass God gave me good friends at church, people who care about us. I`m not saying that you should go to daily mass every day, but it could be a good idea to join a Catholic youth group or another group at a Catholic church close to your home, to make good friends, to share your time and your faith with them.
May God bless you.
