When you go away to college you have a lot of time to be alone in the beginning.

And when you are alone, you begin to think. You think about everyone at home who you miss and all of the memories you had with them. And then homesickness kicks in.

But, homesickness goes to a whole new level when you start to remember all of the good times with your friends. It gets even worse when you start to think of your old friends. It's kinda weird to think that you aren't friends anymore because nothing caused it.

Nothing either one of us did caused us to stop being friends, we just grew apart. It's crazy because we use to be so close and connected at the hip, as our moms would say. We were absolutely inseparable. But over time, things change. I went one way, and you went the opposite.

When we talk now, it is just weird. You don't really know where the other is at in their life because you just haven't talked for so long, so you don't know what to say. You try to go back to your old ways, but it just seems impossible. You basically have to start over again.

We shared so many memories that it is hard to forget. We were friends for some of the worst and best times in each other's lives. We grew up together, got in trouble together, laughed together, cried together, and helped each other through one heartbreak after the next.

Even though we only speak on occasion now, I will always consider you a best friend.

Some of my best memories have been created with you, but also some of my worst. We promised to let nothing change when you moved away, but it's hard to see each other and stay in touch when you are so far away.

What took me ten minutes to come see you would now take me eight hours. Neither one of us ever could imagine that we would be here today, talking every so often and not seeing each other for years. But at the end of the day, we would both be there for each other if something were to happen. Our friendship didn't end in a fight. We just grew apart and we went separate ways.

Growing apart from you was one of the worst, yet best things to happen. It made me cherish every friendship I had after you and to try not to grow apart from another best friend like we did. But even though I can't remember the last time we spoke, nothing as changed. The memories will always be there, and so will our friendship.

Maybe one day we can be us again.

But for now, you are my old friend, my best friend, and my forever friend. I know you are always there, and I'm always here.