We've grown up together, these past four years. If you believe in fate, you can say that some sort of force put us all on the same floor in the same building our freshman year. We can't even say how we became a group of friends. There really was no defining moment of our friendship, it just sort of happened.
Freshman year, ah, what a time to be alive. Most of us did not even know our roommates, let alone each other. We were all nervous about figuring out what kind of friends we would make, if we would even like this college that we decided to spend thousands of dollars on. We were anxious to start new classes that would probably be more challenging than what we expected. Somehow we became friends, we started going to dinner and other meals as a pack. Pretty soon, we were all inseparable from each other. We called our friend group our own sorority, that's how ridiculously close we all were. We would jam all twelve of us into a small dorm room just to watch movies back to back. We would all go out to get snacks at ridiculous hours just because one person wanted to go. We were there for each other in this new beginning of our college career.
Sophomore and Junior year meant that we had to kind of split up. We couldn't all live together, so some had to live all the way across campus, but that didn't slow us down. We somehow managed to have a few classes together, still grabbed dinner together when we could, and the weekends usually meant that we would party in some way or another. We were still quite inseparable, these were the people that I would turn to in any sort of dilemma, they were my rock.
Senior year. It's hard to say, but we are almost done here. We have been through so much together. We have gone through medical scares, boy troubles, fights and disagreements between ourselves, stress over classes, stress over the future. It's hard to think about the future because we don't know if we will be living even remotely close to each other. It's scary thinking about this concept of us not being physically right there for whatever happens. Everyone will still be texting and snap-chatting each other, so we will still talk, but it's a little different than being able to just hop over to someone's place to watch endless hours of "Friends."
With all of this being said, with all of our struggles and our joys, I have to say that I am so proud of my friends. There were some days where we felt like we couldn't go one more day with our school work. Sometimes classes really got us down, but we persisted and pushed through. We are going to graduate and that's just crazy to think about. We have been able to come from so many different areas of life and be friends and share our experiences.
There is so much more that I could say, but I don't even know if I can put it into words. Plainly enough: I love you and I am so thankful for you.
