Old Friends, New Friends
Jenny Brant | KentNewsNet
“You’ll make your greatest friends in college.”
I can’t tell you how many times I heard that my senior year of high school. The statement made me uneasy.
I had a tight-knit group of friends. I mean REALLY tight-knit. How could we not be? We shared so many crazy memories. We had spent countless nights laughing about nothing and planning out our futures. We cried on each other’s shoulders during personal tragedies. We even went to Florida together after graduation!
How could these people not remain my greatest friends? Who could possibly take their place?
I went home over the holiday. I’ll admit I missed my high school buddies terribly after only two weeks of separation. But the welcome home wasn’t as “warm” as I had expected. In fact, by the end of the weekend I was aching to get back to Kent State.
We didn’t “mesh” anymore. We had changed - and so quickly too. We had new friends. We had already had different experiences. We weren’t the same. We fought from the second we started hanging out.
How does that happen? How does life change so quickly?
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