When you are in high school, you have no idea what is in store for you after you leave those walls. You spend so much time with the same people who you have known since middle school. Don’t get me wrong, high school is one of the best times of your life. It is when you are trying to find out who you are and who you want to be. You have a group of friends that you sit with during homeroom and at the lunch table every day and that is all that you are used to. Friends come and go and sometimes you never truly know who is going to be there for you through the thick and the thin.
It all started on move in day and becoming overwhelmed with excitement. It is the moment when I realized that I was going to have a new beginning and a new story to tell. Unfortunately, high school wasn’t the place where I met my best friends, roommates, soulmates, and sisters. I met those people in college and I am forever grateful for that. I always thought something was wrong with me. Why didn’t I have a true best friend in high school? Why didn’t I have the person that was by my side through everything? I questioned myself all the time and just started to believe that I wasn’t going to have those relationships with anyone.
I was lucky enough to meet some of the greatest people in college that have changed my life in so many ways. From freshman year until now, these girls have been my sanity. Thank you for getting me through those long nights at the library, even if we didn’t get any work done because all we did was laugh at the ugly pictures we were secretly taking of each other. Thank you for going to the dining hall with me just so I could have someone to people watch with.
Thank you for dropping all of your school work just because I really wanted to get $5 frozen yogurt on Wednesdays, as if we had nothing better to do. Thank you for sharing your closet with me when I have an emotional breakdown 30 minutes before we leave to go out because I “hate all of my clothes.” Thank you for listening to all of my pointless stories that you probably could care less about but pretend that you do. Thank you for loving car rides with the stereo blaring old Jonas Brothers songs while we sing them at the top of our lungs. Thank you for telling me that I should eat a cookie instead of going to the gym.Thank you for never judging me and loving me for all that I am. Thank you for dancing crazy in frat basements with me and when I drop it down too low, you’re always there to laugh at me and then pick me back up. Thank you for never saying no to a wine night. Thank you for being the shoulder for me to cry on when I am having a bad day.
I honestly can say that I do not know what I would do without you and I couldn’t ask for better people to call my best friends. And finally, thank you for shaping me into the best person that I can possibly be. I love you all forever.
