Everyone has what I like to call the Low Maintenance Friend. These are the friends that you've had for so long, maybe from a childhood sports team or sleep away camp, that you don't feel the need to talk to every single day to maintain the friendship. They are the friends that you have that might check up on you every once in a while to see how life is going, but won't text or call or snapchat you every day to see exactly what you've done for the day. Although you don't talk to this friend all that often, you know if you're ever in a tough spot you can turn to them for anything that you may need.
Going away to college and beyond will especially help you to see who your Low Maintenance Friends are. After being with the same people every day in high school, you fall into a pattern of hanging out with the different people that you talked to every day. In going to college I realized that there are some people, my close friends, that I still talk to on a regular basis whether I see them, text them, call them, snap chat them, or anything else. There are the people that I talk to on holidays with a passing greeting through text messages like "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy New Year!" or "Happy Independence Day!" Then there are the Low Maintenance Friends, the people that will get that holiday text, but also get a text once a month or every other month saying something along the lines of, "Hey, it's been a while. How's life?"
The Low Maintenance Friend is the friend that you can send that "hey what's up?" text to, talk for a little and it's like you've picked back up right where you had left off the last time you talked. You don't need to chat every day but you'll always be there for them.
To my Low Maintenance Friends, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for always being there when I need you. Thank you for staying my friend after all these years. Thank you for being so easy to talk to, and thank you for being so low maintenance. Just know that even if we haven't talked in a while, I'm still thinking about you and I hope that everything in your life is going just the way that you want it, I'll talk to you soon.
