To My Long-Distance Best Friend, As We Evolve
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To My Long-Distance Best Friend, As We Evolve

Even when things are different, a true friendship stays.

Michaela McGeever
Oct 17, 2017
Fairfield University
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To My Long-Distance Best Friend, As We Evolve
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To My Long-Distance Best Friend,

It’s now over a year since we began living apart, no longer seeing each other every day and going over to each other’s houses after school and somehow never running out of things to talk about. It was like we knew almost every possible thing about the other person because we have grown to know each other whilst figuring out ourselves. When we come home for breaks, we always manage to put the effort forward and see each other.

Strangely, but understandingly, some things have changed.

We used to think the same ways, enjoy the same things and have similar goals. However, it seems to me that we have grown in opposite paths. We have disparate interests along with contrasting types of friends, which makes our lives seem oh-so different from what they were two years ago.

In our conversations, sometimes we agree-to-disagree or have opposing opinions, which is not a bad thing as I think that it’s important to broaden our scope of life through other points of view. At other times, we are too busy while at school to talk for a while, which we’ve gotten used to, but just seems peculiar to a life that we once knew.

We still manage to have a great time together, from talking about memories or updating each other on our current situations of any sort. However, I can’t help but feel that it’s different at times. Is this what it means to grow up? To continue to see change in a person that you once knew so well and them probably seeing the same in you?

It’s growth and even if we had similar roots, I have realized the branches can spread in different directions.

However, at the end of the day, if you're happy, then I’m happy for you.

No matter how different we become, I will always want the best for you and will always wish you nothing but all the happiness and love in the world. Even though we both have our college friends and other friend groups, we will always share a bond.

I’ll talk to you soon, but even if we don’t, you know that I am always here for you just as I know you are for me.

Love Always.

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