I've often heard people say that college is the time when you meet a lot of temporary people. I wasn't sure what that meant at first until I started to get older in college. I think the thing about college is there is so much going on for all of us, there aren't really many opportunities to really connect with individuals who are not already in our immediate circle. For example, roommates might become lifelong friends because they share similar interests. Athletes might hang out together because they spend a lot of time practicing.

But even so, there are a lot of things going on in college that may or may not prohibit someone from making those "lifelong friends" that everyone talks about. I think the reason for it is because each of us goes through personality shifts the older we get. Sometimes we go through these shifts before our peers do and that makes us more emotionally mature than someone else and are therefore incompatible since you see the world in a different way after what you've been through.

I think being able to emotionally connect with other people is a huge part of who we're friends with, or who chooses to be friends with us for that matter. The older you get, you just become more emotionally mature because of what you go through. The key is to realize that everything you go through is a learning experience.

But maybe that’s the thing about life. You grow up thinking that the friends you make are the friends that’ll stick by you. And the older you get, you look to your left and right and notice that you’re standing alone. And you wonder what went wrong. You wonder how the people you once called your friends just suddenly disappeared. Then you realize that you grew up. You realized that you were thrown into reality which is called life. Nothing is what you thought it to be when you were little. That’s probably the worst part about life: having reality shatter your expectations for how you thought life should be.

It can be easy thinking that someone you're hanging out with will be your friend till forever but a lot of the times, tomorrow is not a guarantee. That's why we have to live life to the fullest in the time that we have. At least, that's what I believe.