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To My Best Friend Who Is 5 hours, 22 minutes, And 325 Miles Away

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To My Best Friend Who Is 5 hours, 22 minutes, And 325 Miles Away
Alyssa Cairns

I'm sorry I forget about you sometimes.

I'm sorry that we don't talk anymore. I don't bring you up in every conversation like I used to. Things are different now. We can't just call each other and talk for hours. Your newly made friends are speaking in the background while we talk on the phone, and the conversation we were just having gets cut short. You're not a ten minute drive away when I need to get out of the house, or when I have a weird date and need an excuse to leave. The laughs aren't the same because the new stories you need to tell me are a "you had to be there" type story. We don't know each other's schedules anymore and it's always "a bad time" to talk.


I miss you, I miss us. It's hard to keep our friendship when we don't talk anymore. Sometimes I'll come across a picture of us on social media or someone will bring you up in a conversation and it's easy to reminisce and laugh or smile at all the good times we had. We used to make each other feel better and now other people have taken on that role. Please don't get me wrong, we all need to move on with our lives and we all need to make new friends. Trust me, you're the best person I have ever met in my life and I couldn't be happier that you met new people and are making new experiences in life. I just wish I was there making those new memories with you.


Yes, I obviously am counting down the days until you come home, but it wont be the same when you do. You will talk about all the good times you're having at school and I will get a little jealous. Again, you deserve nothing but happiness in your life. Just didn't expect to be fading away so soon. You say that we aren't fading apart but we actually are. I'm sure that I don't pop up in a conversation that much anymore, or only when you're talking about home, which barley happens. You have your own life and so do I, you will go onto bigger and better things and I will forever admire you for that.


No matter what happens between us, I know for a fact that you and I will always be in each other's lives. You will always be apart of my family. I know that you will be my bridesmaid at my wedding and you'll be an aunt the day I have children. Throughout the years, our friendship has survived depression, happiness, drama of all sorts, and heartache.

Granted, it will hurt for a while, but our friendship will survive five hours, twenty-two minutes, and 325 miles.

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