*shrugs* i could go either way; have friends or not, but i would have to go to one extreme or the other. I can either have a lot of friends or none at all, but not inbetween
I have good friends i owe a lot to, now. i guess they influence me, but i personally don't think that's a bad thing. Adaptability to different social scenes and different people is important.
I spent the first 13 years of my life pretty much friendless. It wasn't until highschool that i actually had any friends, let alone any that i actually got to know, or who got to know me. Sure, it's easier not to have friends, I think that a lot, mostly because it's easier on other people not to be friends with me, but I also know that it's more fun to have friends, and it tends to result in a healthier me so I'll stick with my friends; for now at least. I plan to go away when i get older. No idea where, or when, or how, or if i'll come back. That's gonna be hard, now, to leave my friends, but it's something i've always known i will do, and something that, for my own semblance of sanity, i need to do.