I’m so glad that I have had you all in my life. We’ve created so many great memories. I fondly remember keeping each other up late during sleepovers at each other’s houses, always making drawings for gifts when it came time to be one of our birthdays, arguing about who’s turn it was next to write in our shared green notebook filled with stories of our own silly characters, texting throughout entire days during the boring parts of summer, drinking hot chocolate at the corn maze as the few brave members of the group traversed the “haunted” house, and so many more. We’ve had so many conversations about how we felt about middle school, books, going into high school, crushes, the world. They’ve all been all been so formative to me as we grew up together. When I was in kindergarten meeting some of you for the first time, I didn’t know how important the decision of who to play with during recess was as important as it was. I am happy to say that the choice I made then was a good one.
But things are a bit different now, aren’t they? We don’t see each other every month, let alone every day like we used to. We exist across four different high schools. We try our best to befriend each others’ new friends with varying success. Band and play practices clog our schedules until the attempts to all be around each other again become a maze. The texts to each other are more spaced than they used to be. The list of names of people in each of your lives has overflown in my head, and despite my attempts I feel unable to know which teacher belongs to which subject, or whether Kyle is the nice or the rude one sitting near your lunch tables.
But all of this is okay. I will still respond to hearing that one of you feels overwhelmed with comforting messages which I try to make sound as concerned as I really feel. We will keep finding those odd fridays without a football school game for the band to perform at when we hang out for as long as we can. At the end of the day, we are still good friends, growing up together, slowly but surely.
Sincerely,
Your friend (for as long as I can be)
