To my life-long best friend:

We've been friends since second grade and, while we hated each other at first over dumb little boys, our love of sports brought us together and kept us that way as a dynamic duo. At least until we graduated high school. Now, it's almost as if those 10 years never happened. We didn't have some dramatic fight like some friends do that ended our friendship. In fact, I don't think we've ever fought. Although you did punch me one time because you thought I pulled you hair during hide-and-seek in the dark, only to find out that someone else did it. Yes, I went to hide and cried over it, but that was a long, long time ago.

In my senior yearbook, you wrote, "...We are merely months away from beginning our lives in completely different places. Wow... It's going to be so WEIRD! I know that we will both go far in life. I don't doubt that one bit. I just want to tell you that I wish you the best of luck in every adventure that you take. And just because you're going to a different college than me, doesn't mean you will be rid of me that easily. Lol. We absolutely have to hang out at least once every summer, and then some during the school year. Congrats on making it through high school without killing anyone... haha! I love you like a sister!"

At the time, it seemed like we would have plenty of fun hanging out during college and catching up with each other whenever there was a chance. We even agreed that I would come watch basketball at your college and you would come watch football at mine. With our colleges being only half an hour apart, it was going to be a regular thing, but really it was quite the opposite. Instead, I've come to visit with you twice–once on campus and once off campus. Yet, we haven't stood on my campus together since a preview day back when we were sophomores in high school.

I guess I saw this coming though. We never really hung out over the summer while we were in school together outside of playing sports, even though we lived just a few miles apart. We didn't even text each other regularly. That's just not how our friendship was. We didn't need to be in constant contact in order for our friendship to thrive. So once we graduated, I knew we wouldn't hang out that much, I just didn't know that it would end up being almost never instead. But now I have to wonder, is our friendship dying?

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining, just explaining. Believe me when I say that I am beyond happy for you and how well your life seems to be going. You've picked a challenging career path and you're working your butt off and I know you'll be successful. If it wasn't for you being so hard-working, my life would have been quite different for both school and sports. When it comes to how busy with work that you really are, I keep up with you through Facebook. You've definitely got your hands full, but you've also got your leisure time as well where you hang out with your friends, roommate and pets. So I ask, somewhat jealously, what about me?

I'm not asking you to put your life on pause, but what happened to us absolutely needing to hang out at least once every summer and some during the school year? What happened to going to ball games together? I love going on adventures, so let's go on some together. Let's go while we're young and able, before we're chained to a full time, year-round job while trying to start a family and pay off a vehicle all at once. You want to take a day to relax? Let's go float in the river! You want to go back to Mexico? Let's book a cruise! Let's take a road trip or go camping or fly to another country! I comment on your Facebook posts saying such things, yet I get no response while you reply to your other friends' comments.

Maybe you don't think I'm being serious? I am. Maybe you just like my comments instead of taking up my offers because they sound expensive, but there are ways to have fun without spending much money. Let's go fishing then. I know I haven't done anything wrong or you'd tell me. At least, I think you would. We haven't really talked in basically two years. I just want to hang out and catch up with one of my best friends who made me the person that I am and the fact that I haven't been able to is upsetting. We use to know each other like the back of our hands and now it's like we're strangers.

If things don't change, I'll just keep reading your statuses and wishing you happy birthday every year like 200 other people do. But my fingers are crossed that we'll eventually hang out and get to tell each other all about our college lives.

So, if you managed to find this and read it, I love you and I miss you and we need to go on an adventure. Seriously.