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To The Friends Who Found Their Way Back

Thank you for understanding that people make mistakes.

Allison Gath

Aug 09, 2016

Framingham State University

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Everyone makes mistakes in high school. It’s inevitable. My biggest ones happened to be getting wrapped up in people who didn’t care about me as much as I thought they did, and letting other people slip away in the process.

I’d like to dedicate this letter to the friends who found their way back into my life. You left for a reason, and God knows I probably deserved it, but I can’t thank you enough for allowing us to let bygones be bygones.

Whether you left because of drama over a boy, or because I overstepped my boundaries, or because I simply wasn’t acting like a good friend at the time, thank you for allowing me to once again be a part of your life.

Not everyone can be as forgiving about certain situations, I’m guilty of holding grudges myself, but in those moments that you looked at me and allowed yourself to laugh about the mistakes we had both made, I felt an overwhelming sense of peace.

As it turns out, a lot of times, the people that you do not get along with are the people that you are completely similar with. I was not too fond of myself sophomore year, so when I saw a lot of myself in you, I think it became easier for me to push you away. Granted, you probably understood me better than anyone else could have, and that is probably what scared me the most.

The important thing is, now you are one of closest friends.

You are one of my coffee dates, my music sharers, my go-tos, and the people that often understand parts of my past better than anyone else, because you lived it with me. You lived the same experiences as I did, you encountered the same people and the same heartbreak.

Honestly, being able to talk and laugh with you about those people and those memories is one of my favorite things, and I could never take it for granted.

So thank you.

Thank you for forgiving the immature, boy-crazy, inconsiderate person that was sophomore year-me.

Thank you for laughing about “the dark ages”—the times we did not talk.

Thank you for reminding me that forgiveness can bring back the greatest people into your life.

Thank you for being there for me for the past year, when we reconnected, and I was a mess, and you helped me get through it.

Thank you for finding your way back to me.

Thank you for being my friend.

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Because Chandler Bing should be everyone's spirit animal.

1. When you have to wake up early, because you have a 9 AM class.

2. When all of your friends are coupled up... except for you.

3. When you get really bored in class, and you want your professor to stop talking

4. When you're trying to impress the person that you like, or your significant other.

5. When you got drunk at the bars... again.

6. When you are single, and desperate.

7. When you talk with someone who you don't like.

8. When it's finals week.

9. When you don't feel like working out.

10. When you finally decide to go out for the first time in months.

The struggles of having an RBF are all too real

1. People asking if you're mad at them.

2. Those people who hand out flyers don't always try to stop you.

3. Creepy guys telling you to smile.

4. "I thought you were a bitch when I first met you."

5. People telling you you'd be "so much prettier if you smiled."

6. Doing your makeup and looking great, which somehow intensifies the bitch face.

7. Regularly explaining "it's just my face."

We all go through certain stages when we have a crush, Tina just explains it better.

That moment that someone you never looked twice at suddenly makes you do a double take out of no where.

But you can't have a crush, that's outrageous. It's all in your head.

Because you don't have a crush, there's no reason to tell anyone about anything. Right?

But then they do something irresistible and you start to lose it.

Now accepting the fact you have a crush, you have to keep it under control.

Then there's the part where you tell your friends who will claim they called it.

They'll be excited and cheer you on. That's until they realize that your crush is all you'll be talking about.

Your obsession has become so bad, that your Facebook stalking is getting out of control.

But your friends will try and help move things along any way they can. That doesn't mean it will be any helpful though.

As time goes on, you start having fantasies about the two of you and it's starting to scare you a little.

You can't focus on anything because all your attention is on them and everything they do.

Anybody who comes near your crush is now an enemy, and you are willing to fight for your crush.

When you see them, you act like an idiot. Trying to hide your feelings may not be as discrete as you think.

Keeping your feelings inside will start to be harder and harder until you can't keep it inside anymore.

Who knows, maybe it will work out? Take a chance.

Everybody hurts sometimes.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

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