Many say that you will forget the people you meet before college, or even in college. They say that you will probably be able to walk past people you hung out with 24/7 in high school like they're strangers. It is hard for me to understand this concept since I have had the same group of friends since I was a year old.
I met my best friend of 15 (almost 16) years ago in Pre-K. Before we knew how to talk or what certain words actually meant, we understood each other. It's been that way ever since, even though we're 375 miles apart and never seem to be available at the same time. When we happen to have share spare time, we talk and it’s like we’re in that Pre-K classroom again, feigning deep conversation.
I met the rest of my friends in K-4. We unintentionally bonded while running around the playground and pretending to nap. Nothing has changed, except now we spend most of our time sleeping at each other's houses with one of us being forced to sleep on the floor while the rest of us try not to hang off of the bed. And we hardly ever run.
When I imagine my future, I don’t see a lot of concrete details. I see colleges floating in the air, and grasping majors. I see career opportunities rolling away like tumbleweeds in a deserted town. The only thing I can hold onto, the only thing real, is the image of my friends and I, together. I envision it as a Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants or Sex and the City scene, as something iconic
I don't talk to my friends every day. I hardly talk to my best friend during the week and I see the rest of my friends about once a month. We don't have a movie friendship where I have them all on speed dial. We don't have the Disney Channel friendship where I can walk to their house in five minutes or less. We have our own type of friendship and I can't see myself walking away from that or passing it up for anything.
-Chelsea Ashley, Junior Website Editor