In high school, I had an amazing group of ten or so friends with whom I spent four years. Some of those friends I have known since pre-school and will be my forever OG's. I grew up with all of these people, and yet, I certainly feel that I was much closer with some of the people in my group than others, and that's okay.

Over time, I found that some of the people in our group I only really saw at mutual friends parties or at lunch, but we never made an effort to hang with each other outside of school.

Unfortunately, my friend group dissolved quite a bit throughout my senior year of high school. Reasons were pretty much unknown but I theorize that it happened naturally. The truth is, some people were closer to one another than others so unfortunately, we split.

We then found out later that those who decided to leave the group never really wanted to be a good friend to us anyways. That was truly heartbreaking at the time, but at least we found out who they really are.

But, I still have so much love for the group of high school friends that stood by me.

I know people in college who appear to have massive friend groups and for a while, I wanted that. But then I realized that I didn't want to rush and force friendships.

Having a large group of friends is, not always, but often very difficult to maintain. In reality, we cannot create tight and close-knit friendships with every single person we know, it simply isn't natural.

Instead, I want them to happen naturally.

At Temple, I have come to find three really good friends. I know that I can confide in these people and they know that they can confide in me. The difference between these people and the acquaintances I had in high school is that these people have my back. I am very thankful for them.

I am only in my freshman year of college, so I am sure I will meet many more amazing people along the way. Truthfully, I wanted to ease into my freshman year and find myself first before I found other people so we could ride the same wave.