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The Truth To Living With Your Best Friend

You get warned about living with your best friend but you never listen, this is yet another warning.

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You enter kindergarten and you meet that one person and you guys automatically click. You spend every recess playing together and every lunch sharing your food. Then middle school hits and your relationship grows stronger. You start spending every hour of every day talking with them; whether that be on the phone, on social media, or in person.You enter into high school and you are inseparable. Every party, every weekend, every second, is spent hanging out with your best friend. You reach your senior year and you both know that college will be coming up and you know you will be going separate ways; Except, wait a minute, you get a brilliant idea! You should move in together! It will be perfect! you already know every last detail about each other. You know each other's likes and dislikes and habits and hobbies. It will be fairy tale perfect!

You graduate high school and at the end of that summer, it is move-in time. The whole process of moving in is wonderful, you don't even mind carrying the heavy furniture or countless boxes, because you know it will all be worth it! The first half of the year passes and Christmas comes and everything seems to be going great! You get back and you know you are in the final stretch of the school year, as well as the final stretch of your bestie. Except now, things have changed. You both have grown in that small half of year, and when you return together, you think you are great at first but slowly, you lose sight of why you became friends in the first place. Everything they do begins to get on your every last nerve. You find yourselves screaming at each other at 12 a.m. over a simple piece of trash on the floor. You no longer talk to each other, unless its to remind them to pay rent or a bill. Everything is different.

And then your end of the year hits and everything finally rips at the seams. Weeks before you are supposed to move out any way you have that last fight and everything is finished. It's a fight and experience you'll never recover from. You then go your separate ways and for months you find yourself asking Why didn't I just listen to everyone when they told me I would regret moving in with her? Everything is different. And for months, no matter how mad you were at her from that final fight, your heart still breaks a little when you reach for that phone and realize she is no longer a phone call away. She's miles away and you will never cross paths again. Life is different. But eventually you will realize: It all was a learning experience, and as much as you hate her, yet miss her, all at the same time, you realize your life is now better. You have more time to focus on you, and what you need.

There's no longer an US, there is only a YOU, and that is all you need to focus on when trying to get through college and your beginning years of life. Just YOU!

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