Hey guys! How is it going? As backwards as it is, our group chat has been very silent lately. You would think that now is the time we annoy each other by blowing up our phones, but that is a part of growing up; we all know we are still friends, but we can't distract each other all the time. I know I haven't seen much of you lately, and as weird as it is not sharing meals and waking up to spending the day with all of you is, at the same time it is not. I guess that's because being home is something that has been written into us, so adjusting to all of us being apart isn't too bad. It was the rule written between the lines that we had no choice but to cope with. Luckily, there is a mass amount of ways for all of us to stay in touch. Anyways, how are your summers? What kind of jobs are you all working? Are you going on any cool adventures? I guess all will be unraveled when the next semester starts.
Some of us get to see each other often, due to being a close distance to each other, as others live hours apart. Even if we try to arrange a weekend to all meet up, we are at the age that getting the time off and money to afford it all is a bit more difficult than we would like to admit. However, we will make do. It will just make for meeting up at the beginning of next semester so much better.
I will admit though, being apart is kind of a bummer. I miss all of our adventures, like a day of fishing, or trying to find a place to go out to eat, or wandering campus at late hours, or discussing who holds what role in our "family," but at the same time being away from one another is just going to make for more and better memories. I would continue to list them all, but I bet you all can think of them yourselves.
Some of you I have known before college even begun, and some of you I didn't meet until the end of the year, but you have all had your impact on me. With every conversation, every meal, and every minute, I see how we are all friends. However, at the same time I sometimes wonder if we would have ever been friends if it weren't for this college and timing. I guess that is just the way life goes. When you put people in the right place at the right time, it doesn't matter how different they are, they will make their friendships work. And I am glad we all did. Speaking of being different from one another, we are quite the diverse and strange group aren't we? That is what makes us great though.
There is so much to say, as well as not knowing how to word it. Thank you for being my 'freshman year friends,' the 'originals,'s as many other people also have made. You were the first people, whether as a group, or as individuals, to open their lives up to me and embrace my quirks wholeheartedly; no one ever said you had to be my friend, but you chose to, and that means the world to me.
With every new friend that we add to our group, or those who fade away from it, you will all be known as the people who were my first group of friends. No matter what path we all take in life, or how fate sets us, you will all be in my hearts, and I wish you all the best. I can't predict the future, but I don't think our journey will end with this summer.
