I want you to think of your oldest friend, the one you've known for the longest time and have never grown apart from. Most of you probably thought of someone from childhood. Someone you met in kindergarten or first grade. Maybe you grew up next door to each other. Maybe your parents are best friends. Either way, you basically grew up together. You spent countless nights eating pizza, watching movies and playing "truth or dare" at sleepovers. You helped plan each other's weddings and you still plan on being a part of one another's big day. You have thousands of awkward pictures together from throughout the years. You know everything about each other.

You have been, and always will be, best friends forever.

I don't have this friendship. Most of the friends I have, I've only known since college. I never had super close friends growing up, and I didn't really know what it was like to have such a good friend. In middle and high school, I was surrounded by people who had been friends their entire lives. I craved that so badly, but I knew it was too late. At the time, I didn't understand why I couldn't have that. I didn't understand why a person wasn't brought into my life earlier, and why I didn't get to share my childhood with my forever friend.

As I have grown up and met people throughout college, I have found my "forever friends," and I wouldn't have it any other way. I know that if I had met my best friend when I was young, I wouldn't have most of the amazing friends and experiences I have now. I believe that people come into your life for a reason, and I know that I was meant to wait to find my best friends. My friends are my biggest blessing, and I am so happy that I get to have such amazing people in my life right now.