National Best Friend’s Day is in June, and I wanted to write about friends. All the friends you’ve made in your life. The ones who you’ve known since you were walking, or met the first day of school in whatever grade, or the ones who you maybe didn’t like at first. Friends are an important piece of life, and they should always be cherished.

Specifically to people around my age, going off to college obviously means making some new friends and leaving some old friends.

You go to a new place where you may not know anyone at all to get an education, and while doing that, you meet some really great people. You bond with them over classes, exams, and life in general while being in school. They become your best friends, and they make a huge difference in your life. You want them to be a part of who you are for the rest of your life because you’ve had crazy nights with them. You remember being an exciting and fun person with your new friends because they’re exciting and fun, and you want to be a part of their lives.

Then you come home, and you remember all your old friends. It’s summer vacation, and you finally don’t have Although life is always changing, you make time to be with the people who make you happy.to stress about classes, exams, and life during school. You may have an internship or have to work, but you enjoy life being home with family and old friends. You go out and get some ice cream on a hot summer day with your friends since freshman year of high school. You spend a day reconnecting with an old friend you have not really spoken to for a long while. You remember last year being with these people who have been a part of your life since you were probably five in kindergarten.

Because that’s how life is. It moves on. You make new friends, and you keep old friends. Obviously only the important ones. The ones who have seen you freak out because you have a ten-page paper you have barely started. The ones who have seen you puke in the most unbelievable place ever. The ones who have seen you cry over the same boy again and again. And then you cry over other unnecessary and unimportant so-called tragedies. You have good friends in your life who make you better and who make you want to be a better person. That’s how friends should be; they bring you up, and not down.

So here’s to all the friends you’ve made in your life. You may not always talk, and you may not always see each other. But friends are forever. They will always be there for you, just as I’m sure you will always be there for them. They make you who you are. They make you whole. To everyone who has been part of my life: thank you for always being a friend.