Let me start off by saying thank you, and I mean the deepest and most genuine thank you. This year has been very rough for me, but you all made it so much better. I imagine that I might have been back home for my second semester if it weren’t for you all. You made me believe in people again, believe in friends again. You made me believe that there are people out there that can actually tolerate me and deal with me. You swept away most of my insecurities that I had from toxic friendships in the past.

Thank you for dealing with me and all of my emotions. I know that I am a lot to handle sometimes, so thank you for staying. Thank you for listening to me vent about the same things over and over again. Thank you for also being the same person to tell me that I need to let go of those things that I keep venting about. Thank you for comforting me while I cried my eyes out about how I “don’t have life together” or how I miss my family. Those deep talks until 5am really helped me out.

You don’t understand how much our friendship means to me. I know that I may not show it all of the time, but I am truly grateful for our friendships. I know that God put you in my life for a reason, and I am forever grateful to Him for that. This school year would not be the same without you. Many of my past friendships ended in people leaving me simply because they found someone better, or because I was too much to handle. Thank you for not leaving because you found someone better, and thank you for sticking by me this year. I hope that we will keep in touch in the years to come. In twenty years, when we’re hopefully married with kids and have a great job, I hope that we’ll still give each other a call every now and then to catch up. If fate has it that somehow we won’t be connected in the years to come, I want to thank you for all of the great times that we have had, and for all of the times that you have been there for me. I love you and I wish you all the best in life.