When you're young your closest friends were the kids you spent days running around your neighborhood with or the friends you made on the bus on your way to school. When they moved your friendships would tend to fizzle out. As you grow up you start to make friends from all over. Now don't get me wrong, I have friends from high school who are sisters to me today. However, the majority I keep up with their lives over Facebook, not coffee.
Coming to college I met a group of friends which I can honestly call family. We have spent a few short years together. But those years have been filled with laughs, tears, early morning, late nights, and a life time of memories.
We all met freshman year and sophomore year only grew closer. The summer into my junior year was devastated with the news that one of my friends was transferring. She had become such a meaningful aspect of my college career that I couldn't imagine our days apart. Our time grew shorter when it was decided she wouldn't even return for one last semester of memories and to say good bye.
Since that tear jerking phone call, good bye has never been the answer. If anything the distance has only strengthen our friendship. The texts, snap chats, and face times, have become daily communication. Our phone calls back and forth have only become longer. We use days off from work to spend a three hour car ride to see each other. We shop together by taking pictures of items in store or online. We creep Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, to keep up on each other's social circles. We live in 2016, a wonderful time for communicating with technology.
A true friend can stand the test of distance, the test of time, the test of hardships. A true friend is someone who is there on your best days and your worst. I am so blessed to have a group of friends who have never let me down. Friends who have been and continue to be there for late night food runs, happy hours, break ups, movie nights, study sessions, failures, and all the memories too numerous to count. I am even more blessed for the one who has stood the test of distance.
I love you Mama!
