Do people change?

I've been sick and busy at the same time from the past few days. I met up with a good friend of mine from high school yesterday and we haven't seen each other for 10 years or more. We found each other in facebook. That website can do wonders nowadays. I'm really glad to be talking to him again. It's funny because most of the conversations I've been having with people lately are mostly about friendships. I like hearing all the different ideas and opinions of other people about friendship. It's sad when you lose interest of old friends just because they have nothing better to say except recycled information about the same thing over and over again. I probably expect too much from my friends but they do too. I expect alot from myself and I always put pressure on myself to do better and to always learn from my mistakes. If I know that I can do it, so why can't others too? I always want to be there for my friends for support and advice. If I'm inspired about something, I would like to share that with them. If you keep making the same mistakes and never learning from anything then there must be something wrong with you. Not knowing whats right or wrong is just laziness. I don't want to surround myself with incompetent and stupid people. It's ok to have fun and goof around sometimes but if that's all you can do then it's not for me. You need to be able to calm down and get serious sometimes. It's not always about the fun but also having the emotional connection as well.