You were my first friend. We spent our entire childhood together. Every day after school, we would be at one another’s home playing games together for what seemed like forever. Every Friday night I would go to your house and spend the entire weekend with you. We did everything together, we were inseparable, and you were my best friend.
Then we started to grow up and things began to change.
Middle school is a rough time for everyone and we try to not let it change us, but it does. Little by little I began to see you slip away more and more. I felt so alone at times but I knew I would still have you as a friend at the end of the day and I found peace in that. Then I switched schools and you moved.
We no longer saw each other every day and we began to speak less and less. I knew things were changing but I was not ready for them too. I was not ready to lose my best friend. We still made an effort to hang out and talk but then high school happened.
I started at a new school and you stayed at the same one. I had to make new friends all over again while you still hung out with our old ones. I remember crying on my first day because I would not be starting this new chapter of my life with my best friend.
As time went on we spoke less and less and we only saw each other a couple times a year. We both found new friends and discovered who we were, life happened. It happened so fast we did not realize what all was happening.
We grew up, we fell in love with silly boys we thought we would spend the rest of our lives with, we had our hearts broken, we cried, we laughed, we experienced so much life. We had great losses but we gained so much knowledge along the way
We grew up together and then as life happened we grew apart. Though we may not speak all of the time or even see each other that often you will still always be my best friend. Life may have happened and we may have grown apart but I will always love you and you will always be like family. We outgrow people and that is okay because at some point you were growing with them and learning so much.
Even though we are on different journeys does not mean you still are not the special person in my life that I used to spend every wakening moment with playing Barbies or Sims with until 2 am. You will always be my first friend, my best friend, and I will never forget you even if we keep growing apart.
To all of my friends that I have outgrown, I am thankful for each and every one of you. You all have taught me something so special about life and have helped me to grow so much. You will all have a special place in my heart and I will cherish all of our sweet memories. Just because we are on different journeys does not mean you do not still have a friend in me.
I love you all and I am so glad I got to experience part of life with you.
