Dear peanut butter to my jelly:
Going to school away from your best friend is comparable to losing your mom in the grocery store. You pretend like you know what you are doing, but inside your heart is beating fast and you are becoming slightly more panicked as at the time progresses. And as much as you want to just yell "MOM!", you know that you are too old to not know what you are doing in the grocery store and too old to be yelling for your mother. So in college, when you don't know what to do, or you are freaking out because you a having a midlife crisis at the age of 20, it makes it even worse that your best friend is not right beside you.
So, best friend, it is absolutely horrific and extremely annoying not going to the same school as you. I honestly have begun to cherish the late nights texts where we fill each other in on everything going on with our lives, make plans for what we are going to do when we finally get to see each other again, and basically say "I miss you" 100 times throughout the conversation. And I have realized certain things start to happen when you go to a school that your best friend isn't at.
1. You start to text each other at weird hours of the night and have deep conversations because you know you won't be interrupted.
2. You Facebook-stalk all the guys your friend mentions, and she does the same for you.
3. You send messages with SOS signals and EMERGENCY written for urgent messages that may or may not actually be as serious, but it's the best you can do since you can't barge into her room.
4. You start to say "I love you" and "I miss you" in extremely frequent amounts to the point of perceived obsession to an outsider to may view the conversation.
5. You start to plan your time that you do get to spend together MINUTE BY MINUTE, because God forbid you aren't spending any possible moment with each other.
6. You then realize you are probably too ambitious with all the planning and accept that winter break will consist of movie marathons, tea, and cuddling.
7. You have a countdown for things such as Thanksgiving break and winter break. And yes, you know the exact number of days.
8. You send random messages that start with "Hi, miss you," and know that the conversation may end when your best friend replies "Miss you, too"—and you are perfectly okay with that.
9. You look back at old pictures because you are experiencing some serious withdrawals. FYI, those pictures just make you miss your best friend more and don't solve anything.
10. You kind of hate all their friends at college because they get to hang out with your best friend on the daily and you don't.
11. When you meet someone you may be into, you immediately send everything you know about them and a link to their Facebook profile to your best friend to approve.
12. Throwback Thursdays suddenly become a lot more important than they used to be. You need to show the world how much you miss your best friend.
13. Flashback Fridays because (see above).
14. When you finally get to see your friend, a lot of this happens: SCREAM, HUG, SCREAM, CRY, HUG, REPEAT.
15. And when you have to say goodbye to your best friend it's the saddest thing ever and you feel like you're breaking up with a significant other because it's that drastic.
As traumatic of an experience it is not going to the same college as your best friend, I realized that it brings us even closer. There is no way for us to get annoyed with each other. It's always filled with exaggerated expressions of love and longing, and tons of cuddling and laughter when we're finally together.
Yes, we are Meredith Grey and Christina Yang, and we have no shame.
