How to Feel Better About a Bad Thing Happening?

A few months back, my friends all discovered that they were bisexual. All of them, suddenly realised this. Hmm, anyways. Most of them have girlfriends now, and their girlfriends are into drugs, drinking etc. So now so are they. They would drink daily, until they get so drunk they can't remember anything etc. They've smoked weed etc, and skip school to get high and drunk. They've all changed.

Anyway. I was away for one week, and they all started bitching about me, because I wasn't into what they were into. I don't want to go and get drunk, and waste my life.

We're no longer friends. So, I basically have no friends at the moment. But I am starting at a new school next month, so that's good. But I still feel sad, whenever I think about them. I was bestfriends with one of them for, around 4 years. We did everything together, and today is her birthday. They're all going to some party, and it just makes me feel like crap.

What I want to know is, is there anyway I can think of this positively, like. By not being their friends, I'm not going to waste my life. I have goals for myself. I want to go to uni, and med school – and become a trauma surgeon. My exfriends don't have plans, they just want to get drunk and not pay attention in school.

Can someone tell me some good facts for not being friends with them, so I'm not thinking it's such a bad idea. Like, the long term risks for drinking alcohol and smoking weed at 15 years old.

So I can convince myself, that I don't want to turn out like them.

Thanks (:

Suggestion:

I think you answered your own question in your 4th paragraph.

Sometimes doing the right thing is the hardest thing we have to do. Yes, it hurts. But on the flip side, you WILL recover. Some of them may never recover from losing a friend like you. Some of them will become addicts and never make anything of themselves. Some of them will acquire diseases from their growing habits and sexual promiscuity. Who knows what else?

Protecting yourself is a more noble cause than falling prey to the things they have just for the sake of friendship.