I know what you’re thinking, especially if you’re a senior in high school who just graduated—you’re going to be friends with your hometown friends for years. Well I hope that happens for you, but for me and several others, it didn’t quite work out that way.
You graduate high school with the feeling that everything will be this amazing forever. That you’ll always have these people in your life for years to come. Well, to my hometown friends I lost during college— I’m sorry.
I’m sorry we lost touch. There’s no other excuse except the fact that life just got in the way, more so college got in the way. I went to a school out of state and I let myself start over, and forgot about the ones who got me to where I was. I wouldn’t even say that I was selfish in letting our friendships fizzle. I was growing up and I knew y’all were, too. Going to college, no matter how far away from home, prompts you to start fresh and gives you the power to finally choose what you really want.
We join sororities, we create new friend groups, we change our major a million times and life just takes turns you’re not prepared for; and sometimes that won’t include the people from our past. I would be lying if I said I didn’t miss y’all, but it gets hard. Life is crazy.
I know it would have been easy to pick up a phone, send a Facebook message, even send a Snapchat now and then, but I didn’t. It wasn’t intentional. It wasn’t personal; and although we’ve lost touch and don’t speak, I’m glad social media exists because I can tell you’re doing just fine, too.