You're in college.

You've made a bunch of great friends and some of them will be there with you after graduation, and maybe forever. However, if you're anything like me, I'm a little obsessed with my friends from back home.

I don't love my college friends any less, but my college friends know all about my friends from back home for a reason too.

Some of those friends have grown up with you. Some you have had your ups and downs with. Some have seen you at your highest and lowest points before adulthood. Basically, they were a part of a big chunk of your life. So, it's okay to be a little obsessive over them.

During college, I have learned that even when they are miles and miles from me, they are all still there for me whenever I need them. They are literally my lifeline and honestly probably part of the reason how I have not dropped out of college yet. They egg me on to be outgoing and social with my college friends, yet they put me in my place when I need to focus and be responsible. We will comfort each other about how boys can be idiots sometimes, laugh at our mistakes and funny stories, and celebrate our successes.

They just know me so well.

Even if I do not talk to a friend every day, we can pick up right where we left off, as if nothing has changed and just update each other on our lives. During breaks, we come together, get brunch, and literally talk over each other because that's just how excited we are to share college stories with our each other. When they visit your college or you visit their college, you literally count down the days until you get to see your #1's.

You can talk to them about anything, and I mean anything.

It can be about your frustration with school, vents about boys, or even asking opinions about "what should I eat for lunch today?" My home friends are there for all of this, every second of the day. In group chats, you post anything that comes to mind because you know they will never judge you and you just feel so comfortable around them.

Looking back on everything, they had your back through the bullshit that high school brought and have your back in the present, and are ready to take on any bullshit that college brings as well, including crying about midterms and finals together, how disgusting the frat floor has made our white converse turn black, and how we should probably be studying instead of watching Netflix and talking to each other.

Everyone finds their friends from college and high school, I think I've found mine and I'm so glad nothing has changed.