Separation Anxiety: Summer Without Your Friends From College
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Separation Anxiety: Summer Without Your Friends From College

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Separation Anxiety: Summer Without Your Friends From College
Lauren Davidson

Summer’s coming. This means no more homework, professors, or hours upon hours struggling and studying. This means long days spent doing whatever you please. Vacations, jobs, days spent at the beach or the lake, and endless hours laying in the summer sun. This also means you’ve completed yet another year of college and have not yet failed at life. This also means that you’ve gone home - away from all the friends you’ve made and kept this past year. This also means you’re going to be separated from them for three long months.

Maybe it’s a much needed break, or maybe you’ll be gone for five minutes and already miss them, but at some point you’ll at least be a little sad. You’ve spent the last year side by side with these people, laughing with these people and creating endless memories with these people. And now you have to face an entire summer without them to take on life with.

You might hate your life for a while. Who will you live with? Who will you eat with? Who will you party with? Go to meaningless places with? Your family and friends from back home just don’t compare to these people. Who will be there to laugh not only at you, but with you? Who will be there to take care of you, answer your stupid questions and yell to random songs on the radio with you?

Your college friends are the people who have seen you at your worst, and still proceeded to be your friend after the fact. They are the people that fill up the camera roll in your phone, and the ones you tell your family about. They’ve spent the entire year living life with you, and for once, you’re going to have to be without them.

You can imagine an entire summer of fun and amazing days and just the idea that you won’t have to do anything school related for a while. You’ll be at home, with your family, and your old friends and yet you’ll be sitting there and realize that something would be so much better if your friends from school were there to witness this entirety with you.

Truth is, separation is real, and you will miss them terribly. Truth is, as much as you want to think visiting them once or twice will cure the pain - it isn’t the same. Truth is summer would be much more fun with them by your side. And truth is, there is no one else like the friends you’ve made in college, and three months will be hell.

Separation anxiety is real. Missing your friends is real. It happens to everyone. So buckle up, and prepare for a summer spent without some of your favorite people in the world.

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