Idk if I am cared about either. I just feel like I graduated college and I expected my highschool friends and I when we all moved back home to still be my friends. But its like the 3 highschool friends I have living here all are obsessed with being in this new crowd. I invited them to my birthday dinner and 2 showed up for the dinner then I wanted to go out afterwards so I had them over for cake and ice cream and drinks. After the cake my highschool friends left and went to pregame with their other friend group. They even told me "we will be back" and never came back. It just felt like they got a better offer and on my fucking birthday decided to abandon me and then texted me telling me to come meet them. I feel like the people I thought I could depend on to be my friends have no respect for me because they have been blinded by these new people who are the better offer without fail. I hate the group mentality of my friends lives---like if more than a couple people from the new cool group isn't doing it, they don't want to be a part of it or they will make an effort to be there and then peace out. I almost would have rather them not come at all to my birthday because the point of the night was to be with friends and go out like old times and have fun. I even told them where I wanted to go and they were like "yeah sounds like fun!" The bitches have no respect for me any more and they could care less about contacting me to hang out because they have literally moved on and are up the assholes of new people. If they actually wanted to hang out with me for me, and actually thought "oh I haven't seen her in a while I miss her" I feel like they would ask me to go to dinner or something every once in a while. But these days it's like if you aren't part of the group then you are forgotten. I feel like a stranger in my own city. I have no interest in following their lead and climbing into the assholes of the new group just so I can fit in and have friends. Who else thinks this is ridiculous?