I love you guys, but if I ever said that to your faces then you would laugh and say “gross." So, ignore everything up until this point—I hate you guys. With that being said, through all of the years of all our friendships, I have realized a few things.
1. Planning get-togethers is almost impossible.
If we ever think of all of us hanging out together, it requires intense group chatting, years of planning and setting a time—even though we all know we will be late. Not to mention, when we plan to go out and do something exciting, we end up at someone’s house doing absolutely nothing because we are lazy, broke college students.
2. I have a love/hate relationship with our group chats.
The group chat started off with a purpose, and now it has gotten to the point where I never text someone individually. Who cares if I want to get one person’s attention? The whole group will have to suffer through those notifications. But with group chats come great responsibility because although most times I never want to put the group on “Do Not Disturb” in fear of missing something. Other times, there is no choice. When my phone lights up non-stop over a conversation about a Kardashian meme, sometimes I need a break. There are also those who almost never contribute to the group conversations and the rest of us forget that they were there to begin with (you know who you are.)
3. My phone is filled with embarrassing pictures of all of you.
Seriously, every other picture in my camera roll is a terrible picture of each one of you and my phone background is always one of them. Sending a terrible picture of yourself through Snapchat is extremely risky because there is a 95 percent chance that it will be screenshot and absolutely no one will feel compassion.
4. FaceTime keeps our friendships strong.
With friends going to different colleges, having weekly FaceTime calls is key. Even with friends who I see almost every day, we end up FaceTiming all the time. We do not even talk most of the time. We just end up muting ourselves while we do our work or pretend to do our work but really we are deep in animal videos on YouTube.
5. We are way too comfortable with each other.
I forgot how to properly enter a house because I am so used to just walking right in. Also, my mom has gotten used to walking into our house and seeing one of my friends there without me. Trudging through snowstorms to see each other and being a part of each other’s family is a normal thing. By the way, when should I come over for dinner?
6. We forget how to act around others.
Other people must hate hanging out with us because they could say “pelican” and we would burst out laughing remembering that one time. I truly believe I forgot how to act like a normal person because if one of my close friends is not in a group of people that I’m talking to, then you can bet I will be extremely quiet and awkward. Yet, when they are there, it’s like we are one person and if someone asks one of us a question, we would look at the other one to answer.
7. Snapchat streaks are dangerous.
Sometimes I find myself caring more about our Snapchat streaks than our friendships and hitting the 100-day streak was like winning the lottery. Let’s not forget when one of us breaks the streak and it causes a war—that actually may be the reason why I have trust issues.
8. Years are just a number.
Some of us have been friends for as long as I could remember and some of us have been friends for two years or less, but no one could tell the difference. Even I forget that I have only known some of my friends for a little more than the "Freaks and Geeks" run. Let’s face it, you could be friends with someone for almost your whole life but end up being closer to someone you met a little while ago.
9. We are there for each other, especially when we need it the most.
Writing that statement made me want to vomit from all the niceness, but it is true. Sure 90 percent of the time we are mean to each other, but the other 10 percent of the time it is our goal to make each other feel better (and after we feel better we quickly go back to normal because we were nice for way too long.)
