College is often the time when friends from your hometown begin to go their separate ways, and you meet new people that seem to understand you on a deeper level than the people you grew up with did. These new friends seem to have the same interests and aspirations that you have in life. They fill your heart with joy and hope that there are still good people out there because you ended high school thinking that your friends were the only people that would ever understand you, but these new friends do too.

You start to question as to whether or not the friends from your childhood have anything in common with you at all. You began to wonder if time is the only thing holding you together. Did you really pick these friends or were they just your friends because of school?

The answer is they do and you did. They've watched you grow into the person you are. They know the reasons you sit up close to the steering wheel when you first start driving. They know why you roll your window down when you cross bridges. They know what bothers you and what makes you happy. They know your favorite fast food joint and your favorite chill spot. They have a playlist of all your favorite songs from high school that are filled with memories of your golden days.

Your new friends are interesting, easy to love because there's less history. They're like walking on the beach for fresh air when you've been trapped inside after a long winter storm.

But those old friends are the ones that feel like a warm home meal at your grandparents' house on Thanksgiving. They're never changed and always the same as they left you. They're your home.

Make new friends, love and enjoy their presence. But keep the old, because they'll lead your heart back home when it needs it.