Drifting Apart from a friend can be sad, whether it be from geographical distance or a stupid fight. It's still sad, especially when it happens with a close friend that you have known for years. It is really easy to say that you will be friends forever and talk every day, but in all reality it is not as simple.

I remember the first friend I had that moved across the sea and farther away from me. It was sometime between the 2nd and 4th grade. Honestly, I can't remember when it happened exactly. She was my best friend at the time, and at that time in one's childhood your best friend is literally everything. We swore that we would stay best friends forever and promised that we would send mail to each other every week or so. Each letter I received made my day a hundred times better and are still precious to me, as I have saved each of them and stored them in a box. This did not go on as long as I thought it would.

Fast forward to the summer after 6th grade, I moved. I was terrified of losing all my friends. My main way of talking to my long distant friends at this time was email. This worked for a while, but I was really bad at checking my email and got lazy in terms of replying to them. I did go visit them once, and it felt as though I had never left and I believe it will always feel like that when I'm with them. But after that met up we stopped messaging each other. I'm sorry.

As for college, my closest friend and I are both attending the same one. However, I do know that there are a lot of close friends that are not as fortunate as I am, as they will be fairly far away from their best friends. I think that there are two main things that you need to know when a friendship becomes long-distance:

1. People get busy, meet new people, and lose contact. It happens and it's not the end of the world.

2. Your friends will always have a special place in your heart no matter what happens.