I saw a tweet the other day that hit me hard. It read, "It's officially 'What day do you leave?' season." I hadn't actually thought about the fact there are literally seasons for your friends every year. It starts in grade school during summer break. It's summer so you're excited about no school but you really don't get to see all those friends that you're used to talking to every day. You only really see your close friends. Then you go to college and it's the same issue. The difference is that this time you don't even see your close friends because apparently, your taste in friends is "people who live the farthest away from you." In college, there are two WDDYL seasons, the first when classes are about to end and all of your friends have separate exam schedules so people are driving to the airport left and right.

The second happens when you have just gotten used to seeing all your home friends on a normal basis but you are just staring at all of the things you are going to have to pack back up for school in a week. (Unless you are in a sorority which means you had to be back two weeks ago, RIP)

I am done with college now, so I don't have the "summer break" anymore. But I realized, that "What day do you leave?" season doesn't go away just because you aren't in school. I didn't account for summer internships. It sucks so much worse to work somewhere and all of the sudden, all of the interns who are actually your age and you've made relationships with have to leave. The worst part is you don't know when or if you will see those people again.

The point is, you can't avoid WDDYL season, but what you can do is make it a lot less painful.

Schedule the next time you'll see them.

I can't tell you enough how much I hate having to commit to things really far in advance HOWEVER knowing the next time you're going to see someone makes the time in between so much better. It also takes the stress out of you both talking about how you need to plan a time to see each other until you look up and realize it's been a whole year since you've hung out. Once it's set, every time you think, man I miss them, you can instead be like oh yeah I am going to see them in two weeks or whenever.

It sucks, but don't make it sadder than it needs to be.