Thank you to my friends from high school who have stuck by me.

I see a lot online about how awesome college friends are, and while I don't disagree with that, I really feel that once you're in college, high school friends often get very little credit.

My high school friends have stuck by me when I felt the world was crumbling beneath me. They were there nearly every day for four years, and many continue to be through text messaging and social media.

While I've found amazing friends in college, I can't say that they were there for me when I was fourteen obsessing over boy bands, sixteen suffering my first heartbreak, or at eighteen on my high school graduation day.

These relatively small occurrences have bonded my high school friends and myself forever. Although we don't often go to the same football games anymore, I know that they are people that I can always rely on.

There are infinite reasons as to why I adore these people, but perhaps one of the greatest is because I know that we don't have to talk every day to be friends.

I can call them up, completely out of the blue - and if they're free and in town, we can hang out like we saw each other a week ago, even if, in reality, its been months.

So thank you high school friends. Thank you for being here for me when no one else was. Thank you for providing some of my deepest and most personal friendships.

Here's to all our future has to offer.