I can't identify too much with going through a friends death, at that point in time. I had a freind commit suicide, but I was in my early 20's by that stage.
I view life as a bit of a fast flowing river. Don't try and swim upstream, just let it take you on your journey. Just make small shifts in the stream and the currents will take you a different way. Things like reading through this website, learning what life has to teach..., they'll all slightly reposition you in the stream.
Remember also that everyone else is in the river with you, life will continuously bring you in contact with new people. When you bump into new people in the river, say hello. Keep a hold of (keep in contact with) people you want to be friends with and let the stream carry you away from people you don't.
One of the major problems i have with schools is the importance they mistakely place on the decisions you make at that point in your life. We are all constantly making decisions and direction adjustments in life. If you were to ask any sucessful person if they could not have got to where they are if they had left school early and returned to study either part time or full time after some experience in the workforce, I would almost guarantee you would have very few people tell you they could not.
Seriously, even if you make an absolute ball tearer of a mistake it's unlikely to drag you down for the rest of your life. However if you do not learn from the mistake, and remeber that we generally learn more from our mistakes than from our successes, then you have a problem.
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