For 15 years of my life I've had the same group of friends, we went to the same school, did the same sports, everything was great. Then oneway we did something pretty crazy; we grew up. Adulthood smacked us in the face and before we knew it we all had jobs, in college, and miles apart from each other.

Put in Effort

Friendship is voluntary. When you're around the same people you can easily hand out with them all the time but when you're thousands of miles away it's a little bit harder to hang out and make those friendships work. Scheduling FaceTime, sending letters, even the occasional text can make the world of difference in making a long-distance friendship work.

Pay Attention

Paying attention to what your friend is saying is just as important as setting a FaceTime date! Paying attention to important things coming up in your friend's lives shows that you care. There's nothing worse than telling the same person the same thing over and over again!

Support Them However You Can

Say your best friend moves to Georgia to go to art school, what do you do? You send thoughtful text messages, give them an assortment of colored pencils, and maybe even send them a keychain! Sometimes gifts can't be given but simple words of encouragement and support are more effective than you think they would be.

Keep Them In The Loop

While things change and we change as people it's important to tell them about new and exciting things that are going on in your life too. Your friendship may change but that's okay. Change is scary but true friends aren't people who have to see you or talk to you every day. People come in and out of our lives for a reason, sometimes friends drift apart and that's okay!

Friends come into our lives for certain seasons and to teach us different life lessons but the true friends are the ones who can pick up right where you left off.