Dear Friend,

Where do I start? They say that friendships like ours would last forever and I feel like we thought that. Being as close as we were all through middle and high school I feel like everyone thought that our friendship would last forever. We became associated with each other, always together every chance we got and close with each other’s families. When it wasn’t just us, we were together with our whole entire friend group. You were one of my closest friends and confidants. So what happened?

Before you graduate, people start telling you that you’ll lose touch with almost everyone. I always told people, “My friends? There’s no way that we’ll drift apart!” Summer started and being that it was the last summer before us and our whole entire group of friends disbanded for the first time in our lives, we all wanted to have fun and be together as much as possible. But as summer passed by, you started coming to fewer and fewer group outings and we pretty much all together stopped hanging out. Naturally, we blamed the relationship that you were in for this (it was for the most part). I felt as though you just didn’t have enough time for us and that made me upset. I then distanced myself from you and now I am sitting here writing this realizing that I can’t remember the last time that we talked. To be honest, you were the kind of friend that I couldn’t not see in my future and now that I am here I guess all I can be is a little sad. Even if we were to start over again and start to talk I don’t think that our friendship could be the same as it used to be.

Although I am not just here to reflect on our friendship, I am here to say that I am sorry since this is not just your fault. I am sorry that I let you go as easily as I did and that instead of trying to save our friendship I let my frustration get the best of me. When you start the new journey that is college and adulting, everyone needs space to grow and become a new person. You get new friends, a new life style, and a new outlook on life and trust me when I say that spreading your wings and embracing all the new and exciting things that are happening is something everyone needs. I can’t say if I look back to exactly one year ago that I am the same person that I was when we were in the prime of our friendship and maybe now we have out grown each other. We grew together and saw all of each other’s ups and downs for almost 7 years, we helped each other grow into the people that we are today. I am sorry that when I grew into my new life, it was without you. I hope that one day we are able to come together again and pick up where we left off but we are both still growing separately and maybe that is for the best. Until then, I hope that you still look at pictures and think of all the memories that we made for all those years because I still do. Things really aren’t the same without you and I don’t know how I’ve missed that for all this time.

Thanks again for everything.