This week, I was blessed to celebrate my 21st birthday with a group of some of the greatest people around. Several seperate groups of my friends came together and truly enjoyed themselves, which was the greatest present I could have received. For this week's article, I have written the eight things that I learned through their friendships during my 24-hour birthday celebration.

1. Watching my three separate groups of friends interact and converse like one big group of friends is overwhelmingly emotional and the most incredible moment of my life and I am 95 percent sure it went as smoothly as it did because of the alcohol involved.

2. Nothing unites people quite like making sure that one particular person gets really drunk.

3. Playing arcade games and video games keeps people competing and also teaming up, creating strangely strong bonds between people who normally wouldn’t ever connect.

4. Watching someone stare at a lost lover with dopey-eyes, lost in the chaos of a bar, is heart wrenching.

5. Everyone is flattered when found attractive by a cute drunk white boy.

6. After a few hours of wearing four-inch heels, the alcohol drowns out the pain and you can do just about anything.

7. You don’t realize how expensive alcohol is until the next morning when both your head and bank account are screaming at you.

8. There is nothing quite as amazing as celebrating your 21^st birthday.

Thank you to all of my friends who helped me celebrate. It was truly the best 24 hours of my life.