My whole life I've always been told that college is the best part of your life. I've been told that the friends you make there will be your friends for life, and the memories you make there will be the ones you'll never forget. What I was not told about were the three and a half long months every year that you are forced to be away from your college friends and the life you have acquainted yourself with.
Arguably the hardest part is being separated from your college best friend. Especially if they are two states and approximately a fifteen hour drive away from you. This long distance hardship (a real travesty to many) results in a few very real, sometimes very concerning circumstances.
1. You text each other about every little thing.
What food we're eating, Instagram captions, outfit opinions, VSCO filters, what to text. You name it. Let's be real, most of my decisions run through them first.
2. You FaceTime for hours.
To be honest a lot of the time we're just watching the TV or eating dinner while occasionally commenting to each other, but still. Either way I try to pretend we're not fifteen hours away from each other as we share our life updates.
3. You send each other Snapchats about how boring your lives are without each other.
Who am I supposed to spend like 90% of my time with? Who is going to go on walking adventures and get lost because we couldn't remember the directions?
4. And pride yourself on your growing snap streak.
We will hit 100 and get the emoji. There is no other option.
5. You start a poke war on Facebook.
Why yes, I am twelve years old. But middle school poke wars pale in comparison to us now.
6. And tag each other in every post that reminds you of them.
7. Your home friends no longer get half of your humor.
It's hard to convey exactly what "wooop" means without having been there.
8. And don't seem to understand your stories (ramblings) quite as well.
9. You start making plans to see each other after only a few hours of being apart.
The separation anxiety is real. (So when am I visiting???)
10. And start listing all the things you are going to do together next semester.
Indian food or Chinese food first? Or both? Maybe even ice cream after too.
11. You get serious FOMO when your other college friends get to hang out with them.
Not fair at all. My friend.
12. So you look through your photos and try to remember times before your (forced) separation.
But more often than not that just makes it worse. I wanna go back pleeease.
13. You start saying "I want to go back to college" an annoying amount of times
But like not the school part. Just the fun part. Sorry home friends, but you understand.
Overall I think it's fair to say I kind of miss you. I miss our surplus of food dates (because no one else ever wants to join us) and all of our unintentional twinning moments. I miss taking an extra half hour to walk home because we stop every three minutes to take another attempt at an artsy photo. After all, no one else will ever complete my chinese food order as well as you do.
P.S. Don't worry less than 70 days until Thing 1 and Thing 2 are reunited.
