It's been quite some time since we've all been together. It's crazy to think it's been half of a year since we graduated high school. The best days of our lives thus far came and went, and we have all grown apart since then. Looking back, we were inseparable, and now all we have left are the memories of the people we used to be back then. We were so naive about everything even though we thought we knew it all, especially because we thought we knew each other so well, but now look at us.
I can honestly say you guys were my best friends. We literally spent all of our time together. We had all of our classes together, and we would always hang out after work/ on our days off, even though we spent all day with each other and would see each other the next day. From freshman year to senior year we stuck to each other like glue. We would walk everyday to Luigi's to get food in the summer time and then walk to VFW park and sit on the swings and take pictures for hours. We would sneak out after curfew( which was 8pm in the summer....we were such babies lol) after our parents went to sleep and hang out at VFW park some more ( there was literally no other place to hang out at the valley is so boring) under the summer sky littered with stars. Our conversations were deep. We talked about what our passions were and what our ideas of love was. We talked about what our future carers would be and how everything was going to be okay, especially because we would be friends for life. I mean, we literally carried each other on our shoulders. Were in this together.
Sophomore year came to an end and we all got our driver's licenses. What a liberating feeling it was to finally be able to drive by ourselves. We drove around everywhere and our cars became our new hangout spots. We drove to the gourges to go swimming all the time and we took road trips whenever we could. Our traditional conversations about life started to happen in parking lots and we thought we were so cool for driving after 11pm while we were still 16 at the time. We were halfway done with high school already. We knew what the next two years would consist of but we were still kids. We told ourselves we weren't growing up. We would be young forever with no college debt or bills to pay. What a feeling it was to be so young and free and have the best friends anyone could've asked for.
Junior year came along and so much changed. We were upperclassmen now. We were thrown into the world of SATs and having to think about our futures. Our time was running out and we knew this. That didn't stop us though. We had the time of our lives. We got breakfast before school and got lunch after. We wanted out of that school so bad. It was a train wreck after all. Little did we know it would be nothing compared to how our friendship crumbled.
They say senior year happens in a blink of an eye and how right they are. It feels like yesterday we were walking through those hallways, sipping class, taking snapchats, talking about how fun prom and the senior trip would be. We filled out college applications and knew we would have to eventually go our separate ways. We lathered in every moment. Were were all there when one of us cheered for the last time under the Friday night lights, or shot that last hoop into the basket at our last game. We got accepted to the schools we wanted to go to, and talked about how different life would be like without each other. We wouldn't be coerced into the same cruddy school for 7 hours at a time, we would meet new people and make new friendships. We'd finally be able to spread our wings and have the freedom we always wanted.
Senior year also consisted of heartbreaks and missing school. We weren't there for each other like we used to be, there's just too much going on in our senior year of high school to do the things you used to. Going to school, work, applying to college, writing essays, taking the SATs, sports, etc. We barely had anytime to breathe, nevermind hang out with each other. We stopped going to school. We were too tired, lazy, and quite frankly, DIDN'T CARE IN THE LEAST BIT. We were BEYOND done with school that we only went when there was something important. But we still tried to be there for each other even though we knew what was happening. Finally, the big day came and we graduated. We said good-byes to some of the best and WORST memories of our lives. And, to each other.
We haven't talked in months, and we won't ever be as close as we used to be. Nonetheless, I wish nothing but the best for you. Life may have sent us in different directions, but life also brought us so close for our four years of high school. We got torn apart at the end of our high school careers, and a lot of nasty things were said, but I send all good thoughts and vibes your way and hope the best for you. Going off to college, meeting new people, experiencing life in new ways, and discovering yourself as a person really changes your perspective on things. Wherever your road takes you, I hope you love your destination and find peace, happiness, and prosperity. High school may be over, but our journeys certainly are not. Wherever you go, whoever you meet, and whatever you do, I hope you end up in the best place, with the best person, doing what you love to do.
