On Friends

In high school, I found myself surrounded by people that didn’t have the same philosophy as me. this doesn’t mean they aren’t good people, it just means I wasn’t meant for them. My senior year was a rough one in terms of finding people to enjoy my last moments of high school with. Second semester, I hung around my boyfriends friends and found a few girls that I wished I had met sooner. But summer came and went and before I knew it everyone was moving onto bigger and better things, people included.

It took me a few weeks of being awkward around awkward people before finding my group of friends. The great thing about college is that there’s a sea of people who come from all sorts of walks of life. There’s every type of person to meet at college; from the athlete to the nerd, the prom queen to the band geek. Being the girl who sat in the corner and listened to Taylor Swift all day, I was sure there wouldn’t be anyone for me. I thought I was going to be alone in my room all day being as lonely as I was the four years before. Then I met Yzzy. And Bridget. And Joselyne. JEBY, as we call ourselves, are my core group of friends. Were all from different walks of life, two of us popular, or as my friend says “I just knew a lot of people”, and two of us the nobodies. That doesn’t matter anymore though. We are inseparable, and yeah just like any friend group we might bicker sometimes, but I know I would take a bullet for them and they would for me too.

It feels good to be surrounded by people who care about you and share the same interests as you… or a least tolerate your obsession with Taylor Swift. These girls are the people who have made college what it is for me, and I cant imagine what it would be like without them. Now, I know I’ve only known them since August and maybe I think too much about them, but right now, I cant imagine what my next four years would be like without them.

As someone who always had trouble finding and keeping good friends, I can say that it does better, and just because you might be in a rut right now with friends, or anything for that matter, doesn’t mean you wont get to the happy place. For me, it took until college to find my people. It might for you too. Don’t give up hope just because someone doesn’t respect you for who you are or because someone you’ve been friends with for years turns on you. If that does happen, be kind and move on, because it does get better and it will take longer to get better if you dwell on your past and never move forward.

In the words of Taylor Swift: Be like a snake- only bite if someone steps on you.

Us laughing at nothing at 2am on a Friday.