correspondence

The older I get and the more responsibilities life hands me, the worse I get at keeping in touch with distant friends. It takes a lot of work to keep a long-distance friendship going and if both people in the relationship do not have the time or are unwilling to make the effort, it is fairly imminent that your friendship will lose its luster.

I used to lose sleep over this concept. The thought of losing the closeness I once had with my many college friends seemed impossible. How could girlfriends who used to be like family to me ever not be a part of my life? But 6 years after my college graduation, I realize that the task of up-keeping friendships from hundreds of miles away is extremely difficult. People change, lives take different paths, and soon you realize that the best friends you had six years ago closely resemble strangers.

I also realize that, although my days of calling a last minute gathering over pizza and pitchers with my girls, congregating around a beer-soaked kitchen table for a friendly game of Power Hour, or watching all-day marathons of Beverly Hills 90210 are long-gone, the friendships I created during my college years have most certainly made me who I am today.

After all, how would I have perfected my impeccable Flip Cup skills if it weren’t for hours of practice with my Marauder girls? I'm positive those skills will come in handy for me one of these days...