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How You Know You Found Your Best Friends In College

Find your people and love them hard.

Kailee O'Brien

May 24, 2016

Wartburg College

How You Know You Found Your Best Friends In College

Kailee O'Brien

It's your first year of college and you are worried that you will not find anyone to hang out with, let alone anyone to go with you to get food. But somehow everything falls into place.

Being on a sports team for me personally made everything that much easier. I knew coming in that we all already had one thing in common, we loved softball.

After practices going to all get food together and getting to know where we all came from, if they knew anyone that I did, it was great getting to know them. But there was a group of people that I knew I would want to spend more time with.

These people knew other people and I slowly became friends with them. We started hanging out more and more. The inside jokes became funnier and the nights staying together got longer. I knew deep in my heart that these are my people.

Finding your people and loving them with all that you have is one of the greatest gifts I think God has ever given me.

We were are there for each other through everything. The bad days, the good days, and the days where we miss our families a little extra. These friends I know I will have in my life until the day I die.

I thank God every day for giving me people that push me to do good in school. They push me to make the right decisions and be an overall better person.

If it wasn't for them I don't think that my head would be on straight.

Of course we all have friends that we have coming into college but when you are in a small complex for 9 months and no one else around but each other, you build a different kind of friendship.

The kind where if it's 2 a.m. and you want to have a movie night, there's no asking mom if it's okay. You just go.

I couldn't imagine my first year of college without my best friends and I am so ecstatic to be able to live with 3 of them next year.

No matter what though, I will always love my friends from back home. But Jenna, Megan and Rench. Thank you for always loving me for me. I cannot wait for the countless memories made in the years to come.

Also, I love all of the other friends I didn't mention. You guys are the best <3

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