There's nothing quite like being reunited with your home friends for a mini-break, like Thanksgiving. Living at home and having most of my home friends off at college is definitely difficult when I miss them, but who doesn't miss their home friends? The best part about being away from someone, friend, parent, boyfriend, or girlfriend is being able to be reunited with them.
Three or so months is a long time to be away from people, especially when they're your best friends. Sure, you visit them during the school year or you make sure to video chat once a week, but it still isn't the same when you're all reunited in your hometown for a break, like this past week for Thanksgiving. No school pressures, no worries, just pure happiness and bliss. Two of my best friends who are a year younger than I am left for college this year and it was really difficult not getting to see them almost everyday or at least once a week. Of course I was happy to see them striving, making new amazing friends, and living up their freshman year but I couldn't wait for them to get home. I think, when you start a new chapter in life and see your old friends start new chapters in their lives, it's reasonable to be afraid of things falling apart. Luckily all those fears go away once you are reunited and together again.
There isn't anything quite like your old longtime friends from home; those friendships are truly the most special. They know everything about you and have seen you through your awkward puberty, acne, greasy hair phases of your life. So, it's only natural that when you're reunited you scream, cry, melt down, and more. Even if you speak to them every single freaking day you still have to have that sit-down-and-tell-me-every-little, tiny, descriptive detail of your life, you still have to go through all of your inside jokes and laugh hysterically until you pee your pants, you have to have that judgment free talk where absolutely nothing is off limits because you know they're that person you can confide in, and you obviously have to ask them how they are really, really doing.
Sometimes, you just need to be with your oldest best friend, to sit down, eat pizza, cry, watch The Notebook, cry some more, laugh, and indulge in being around someone who truly knows the real you, quirks and all. Reuniting with someone you care about is a feeling like no other. The feelings are raw and real, the tears are genuine, and the happiness is the most mutual feeling you can ever have.
