Dear friend,

I am going to be completely honest with you: When we left for college, I was scared of losing you. I was scared of getting too caught up in our own lives that we would forget about each other. I was scared that your new friends would replace me. I was scared that I wouldn’t have the honor of calling you my friend anymore.

How was I not supposed to be scared? After seeing each other basically everyday, I didn’t know what to expect when we went our separate ways. We had never done this crazy thing called “college” before and we were about to start the next chapter of our lives. The part that worried me the most is we were starting this next chapter in separate places. We were going to new places where we knew nobody, or if we were lucky, we knew one or two people. We had to start all over again with finding friends.

I remember making friends at Orientation; I remember you telling me about your friends that you had made. I was so happy that we had found these friends, but I was also sad that we weren’t making these new friends together. To be honest, I was a little worried that your friends would replace me or were better than me. Like I said, we weren’t seeing each other everyday and you saw them everyday, they could replace me so easily. But I got a sigh of relief when you told me that even though your new friends were amazing, no one could ever take my place.

I remember visiting you at your school. It was so different from mine. It felt weird. I was nervous to meet your friends; would they like me? What did they think of me? Would things between us be the same?

Now let’s be real here, I was overreacting about all of this. I was so happy that we had found our own friend groups at school. I was happy that we found our people that we would eventually call our best friends. I was happy to see that you found your place and were happy.

I was really happy to know that you still considered me to be your friend. To be honest, I love meeting your friends from school, I love visiting your school, and I love that your new friends and I get along so well. I never would have imagined your friends and I getting so excited to see each other when we visit.

What is great about having you as a friend is that I know you’re always a text or phone call away, even if it is sometimes two in the morning, I know you will eventually get back to me. I know that even though two or three weeks, or sometimes months, go by without seeing each other, when we do get to hangout it is like nothing has changed at all and we pick up where we left. If anything, college has made our friendship stronger.

So thank you for sticking with me once we started college. Thanks for understanding that life gets crazy. You’re a true friend. I love you, friend.

Love,

Your friend who goes to a different college