People always say that you meet your very best friends in college. While I believe that that is true, I think I had a stronger bond with my high school friends.
In high school, I had a close knit group of girlfriends. We did everything together, literally everything. We would support each other in all that each of us did. If any of us had a sporting event, a music event, or anything in between, we knew we would have a support group there. When it was pouring down rain, we weathered the football games together. When it was 100 degrees, we watched each other's soccer games together. Anytime one of us would make it to regionals or state in our favorite activity, we always had our own fan group cheering us on from the bleachers. Or when we finally landed a solo in the school's choir, our friends would be there to listen. And don't even get me started on our senior prom. We made it so that all 20 people could fit inside a single limousine. We spent almost every weekend together by camping out, going to the lake, watching scary movies, or baking cookies. My group of friends and I were truly inseparable. From the time we formed our friendship until the very end we were there for each other, day or night, sunshine or rain.
High school friends were there for you when you had your first kiss or first boyfriend. They were the first to know when your grandpa died and they were there at the funeral, with a shoulder to cry on. When we needed a home away from home, their door was always open. And when we wanted an additional family, our parents treated everyone like their own.
But after high school, we all faded away from each other. I don't know if it was because some of us went to different colleges, or if it was because we all just changed. But I know one thing is for certain, and that is that I miss them dearly.
Your high school friends stayed your friend, through all of your awkward and weird stages you went through, while growing up. Your friends you had in high school stuck with you, despite your psycho phases you went through during your teenage years.
High school friends know things about you that your college friends don't. Your old friends know things about you that your new friends will never understand. They were there for you when your world was flipped upside down. And when it flips upside down now, for the same old reasons, your high school friends are the only ones who would understand. There are things we all went through in high school that we can't talk to our college friends about because they just might not get it.
I think in high school bonds with friends are closer because sometimes, we are all each other has. When we had boy problems, we went straight to our friends for advice and help. Now, we know how to figure our problems out on our own. In high school, we didn't have to focus on what we were going to spend the rest of our lives doing, we only had to focus on our plans for that weekend. When we were in high school, we didn't have to go to the bars to have a fun night. We would sit in a tent, in a back yard, and talk about our lives, and that was our "wild night."
Yes, every girl has drama with friends, especially in high school, but we would always resolve it. We would never stay mad at each other because we cared about each other so much. Now, in college when we get mad at our friends, that's that. We don't have time to meet up and talk out our differences. We lose a friend, then we move on.
My high school friends knew me better than I knew myself, and I think a handful of them still know me better than I know myself. I love my college friends to death, but I have never met anyone in college who means as much to me, as my high school friends meant to me.
So to all of my friends from high school that I haven't talked to in months, or even years, I love you and miss you so much.
