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To the friends I lost along the way

Thank you

Maeghan Spear

Dec 21, 2016

Franklin Pierce University

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To the Friends I Lost Along the Way,

Thank you.

Thank you for once being a part of my life and meaning the world to me. For that service I will always be thankful. I look back at our time as friends and cherish every moment that you made me happy, every time you made me laugh, and even more so to the times you made me cry. Each and every one of you played a role in creating the person that I am today, and for that I am thankful. Whether we were friends for a long period of time or a short one, it doesn't really matter, to me you were still a friend and I am thankful for that.

However, there are also a few things I'd like to bring up. A few of you, and I'm sure if you read this you'll know who you are, I'm not entirely sure what happened. You see, to me, it seems like I lost you because I wasn't capable of being the happy, weird person that I had been known to be before that point. At the time, losing you as friends tore me up way more than what I was going through at that time. You preach one thing, build a nonprofit organization to try to raise awareness for it, and yet when one of your best friends since elementary school goes through that exact problem, you abandon them and leave them to figure it out on their own. To you, I wanted to address you personally and thank you for teaching me that not everyone is who they say they are. Even the people who were your best friends for years, and the people who claimed they'd always be there for you, can change in the blink of an eye and actually turn out to leave you behind. Thank you for teaching me to never completely trust people, because you never know what might cause them to change their minds and betray every bit of trust you gave them.

To those of you who taught me other valuable lessons, I'm thankful for those lessons too. Whether that is trust, or proof that not everyone is the who they say they are, thank you. Without each and everyone of you, I would not be the person that I am and I would not be as strong as I am today.

Those of you that we simply grew apart due to distance, or lack of communication, I'm sorry. I miss you and wish you would come back into my life.

And lastly to those of you who made an effort to come back, it is you who I am truly thankful for. Thank you for reminding me why we were friends in the first place and for always staying by my side when I need you the most. Yes, we may not be as close as we once were but I appreciate you coming back and returning to my life and being my friends.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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