When you move away from home, you are so excited for the new adventures; I definitely was. The idea of complete independence in a new state is so exciting and you can't wait to venture out on your own.
When you leave, you promise to stay in touch with all of your friends and for a few weeks, you do. But shortly after, you and your friends get into your own routines, leaving each other out of it. Once you begin to make new friends and start focusing more on all the term papers due in the next few days, you forget about the people whom you made a promise to.
Unfortunately, this is the worst part about going away to college. You drift from your closest friends, but that's just what happens. It's no one's fault, you just inevitably grow apart.
When you come back home for summer, you try to meet up with friends again. However, you realize that you really did grow apart. You talk about how you haven't talked in months, you wonder what happened to the kid in your homeroom, you attempt to tell them all the boy and girl drama that happened in the last nine months, but you realize there's not much else to say.
And while this happens, you are still forever grateful for the friendships you had in high school and can't wait to go back to school to your college friends. Unfortunately, when you leave the state you also leave friends, but you have the memories of those friends that never leave you.
