Make New Friends but Keep the Old

I love friends.  Having friends makes my life complete and my world go around.  Lately I have been participating in "Bad Movie Night" with the guys I used to spend most of my time with back in my freshman year of college.  It has been really great seeing them again and reconnecting with them.

Today, I received a complement from one of my friends from freshman year.  To some it may not be a compliment but it just goes to show how good of a friend he is.  It also shows how well he knows me that he felt comfortable saying to me, "You are Wonderfully Weird."   I prefer to be a little abnormal, normal is just so overrated. This might just be the best compliment of the day!

Coming closer to graduation it is really hitting me how many of my friends will no longer be around.  One of my close guy friends is all pumped about going into the Navy.  I think it is a wonderful decision but this has really gotten me thinking about how I am going to feel when all these people leave.  This provides me a wonderful opportunity to learn how to keep in contact.  I do my best and lately I have been working hard at connecting with the many groups of friends that I have been blessed to be apart of these past 3 1/2 years of college.  When all is said and done, who I am still in contact with a year from now will really show me who my true friends are.  I still find it a little saddening that I will not be able to see them when I want. 

Even this post is making me kind of depressed. I understand there are many people out there and I will make more friends, but I don't think I have ever had as good of friends as I have in college.  Living so close to people in the dorms really creates a special bond.  You go to dinner together almost all the time, go to the gym together, and know who to call when you are bored and then you don't even have to go outside to see them.  

So for those who are leaving after this year, don't forget me.  If I don't come back here for grad school next year, I will never forget you.  I thank my friends for being in my life.  It will be an adjustment for me to move on but these are memories that will last a lifetime.