How to make these statements natural? One of my friends is an aspiring musician that has sold many albums at the age of seventeen. I've made it so far in life that once I remove this lifelong stigma, then I'll be free of this mental burden. Friends are just as important as family, but if they don't understand the time to put your energy instead of them in a family crisis, then they're not truly your friends. There are some things that I have done on purpose just to get people to talk to me. You and I know a lot of things that we don't know ourselves. An example of a proportional relationship could be as time passes, we age.