My best friend and I have been friends for roughly around eight years. While we were in high school, we always talked about going to the same college and being dorm roommates. That was the plan all throughout high school, until around our senior year when our plans had taken a turn for us. Unfortunately, God had different paths for us. We planned to attend different colleges. Not only did we attend different colleges, we both went out-of-state, in different states! When we found out we were going to attend different colleges, people would always tell us that our friendship would eventually drift apart. I must admit it was scary leaving my best friend. We shared our tears with all of our friends as we said our goodbyes.
Distance can be a very scary word to most people. Especially when it gets involved with some type of relationship with someone. Nowadays when people have distance involved in their relationship, they rely on text messages, phone calls, FaceTime and social media to hold their relationships together. It is very nice to have these things to help us communicate with someone when distance is involved. It makes it much easier to communicate, but it can make it complicated as well. It is almost as if we take advantage and overuse these opportunities that we are given. Since we have these opportunities basically available all of the time, some may actually use them all of the time. One may feel like since these opportunities are there, that means it needs to be used for what it is made for and depend on communicating 24/7. This is where the issues begin. One may rely on it so much, and other may not. The one that may rely on it may feel like the other ignores them or does not want to talk to them, but that is not always the case. People get so frustrated with it that it effects the real relationship.
When my best friend and I left to different schools, I was sad, but it wasn’t the end of the world. It was a scary transition from leaving to a different state and making new friends. Yet it was a scary transition, losing my best friend was never a fear I had. I knew we would always be friends. We were both excited to move on to college and share our experiences with each other. We do not have to talk on an everyday basis to keep our friendship. We enjoy meeting new people, getting an education and the college experience. We do talk every once and while, and it does always give us a ton to catch up on! Also, whenever we do come back in the summer, it is as if we never left. We are now going onto our senior year in college and still best friends. I know wherever life takes us after college it will continue to be the same. I feel like this is what makes a strong friendship and I am thankful for our friendship!
