You go to college and you think, well, this is it, this is where life takes me. Then you graduate and you think, this is it, and you and your friends carry on with life, and hopefully your friends, families, and your future families get together and become new families and carry on the traditions you’ve made.

But to the friend that I take advantage of and don’t necessarily talk to every day, or don’t necessarily interact with or make contact weekly, and sometimes you pull most of the weight of the friendship because I’m just not all there; I am sorry.

I think that sometimes people forget, and sometimes people get busy, and sometimes people are stuck in their own worlds. They have to wait for it all to catch up to them, and in all honesty, sometimes it takes longer than you think. All of that is no excuse for anything, but some people are like that, and some people are lost; there are very few people who know where to find you. Sometimes we tend to forget that, but for that, I am grateful.

I tend to get lost a lot, and I tend to get caught up in a lot of things, and somehow, there’s always a time to find a way to pull me back to the ground. In a sense, it’s gravity. I think that certain friends come and go, and then there are those certain friends who are your gravity.

I am very grateful for the humans in my life, because I necessarily would not know where I would be without them; I would still be me, but they’ve made such an impact on me that I will carry it with me forever.

I am in no way a perfect human being, necessarily, because I don’t believe in the term perfect. There’s always room to get better. So as finals week carries away, and I am left with the thoughts of making it through the week, with all the meltdowns and all the breakdowns, and tears, I am grateful for the phone calls, the car rides, the slushie dates and many more times with friends who kept me together to remind me that life is one step at a time, and that’s how it is always going to be, and it is one step at time with the people who care.

Friends don’t always get along and friends don’t always agree, and that’s okay, that’s the point of things in life. At the end of the day, that gravity you wish for is always a phone call away, always a walk down the street, or always a drive home.