My best friend is currently going through a rather difficult time. She moved cross country for College and is missing things at home a lot. It has come to my attention that with College getting into the swing of things, there might be others in a position like hers. This letter, while addressed to my friend, contains words that are my attempt at consoling her through written word as I have found most effective in situations like this. I hope that this letter helps.

My Dearest Best Friend,

I plead you to stop crying because you are about to embark on your college experience, which is an adventure that will change your life. What kills me, as your best friend, is that I am not able to stand with you on this adventure and that I am only able to cheer you on from the sidelines as you wage war on trying to earn a degree without falling into crippling debit that you will never be able to pay off because Baby Boomers destroyed the economy, the housing market, and have possibly killed our planet. My special sense of humor aside. This is as difficult for me as it is for you. Even writing this to you has been an emotional struggle for me, but I feel it to be a needed one, since I am better equipped as a writer to write to you my feelings than I am as an orator able to make my feelings come across in a normal oral tradition. I would have made a terrible Bard. What you are going to experience in college and in this new place you currently are in will change your life, but what I am feeling at the moment are hard to describe emotions of grief because my best friend is hurting and I don't know what to do other than twiddle my thumbs and type out a letter because the comfort I am able to give in this current moment feels to me like it comes across as the type of comfort you would receive from a certain former friend of ours who doesn't care about anyone but herself.

I am asking that you take a leap of faith and possibly enjoy the fact that you are not currently in our home town, which as we both know, this time of year it's hotter than the surface of Venus and Venus is basically a big pizza oven. I am begging you to take a blind leap of faith and think about the future. My gut is telling me that you are going to have a fantastic time. What happens in College will be something that will stay with you for your entire life. It is something you will look back on one day and think one of two things. You will think "College was so great. I would love to do that again" or you are going to think, "College sucked! I never want to do that again." Yes, my friend, there are people out there that hated their college experience. I do not want you to be one of those people that hated College, because one day, It'll be your baby sisters turn to go to college and she's going to ask you what it's like and I hope to God that you are able to tell her that you had a fantastic and wonderful time and you that you would kill someone to go back and do again. I am asking you not to focus on the fact that you are miserable in Philly away from everyone you know. I am begging you to have the time of your life in the next four years because the next four years of our lives are something that we should both come out of changed for the better and happy. You know I am never wrong about stuff like this. College is amazing. I know from personal experience because I have already started my first semester in college.

I am going to miss you, my dear friend.

I am going to miss how we spent hanging out together and laughing about stuff.

There are things that suck about moving and starting over in a new place. One of them is that you miss everything back were you were from and those things become sad, but just because you are away from everything doesn't mean you need to make yourself miserable. That is the worst thing you could do. It just makes things a billion times more difficult because when you are miserable everything you try and do becomes hard as hell. Please focus on the brighter side of things or at least try too. You are going to make so many friends and do so much stuff that you will forget about missing things back in Texas. College is fun. College is the best four years of our lives. Please don't make that a lie for yourself.

My friend, I will always be here for you. I will always have time for you. I will always want to be your goofball sidekick if you get superpowers. I will always be your friend. I always love you, my dearest friend.

Always your loyal Confidant,

Maggie