I have been thinking recently how many people I met in college. My answer, A LOT. Of those people there was a large handful of them that I thought I was going to be friends with forever and that nothing would change that.

Well college has come and gone and it just amazes me of all those people I considered such good friends, the ones I actually still keep in contact with and really truly have a meaningful friendship with are even fewer than I could have ever imagined.

Don’t get me wrong, I still care for all the people I met in college because in some way, shape or form they have impacted my life and helped mold the person I am today even if I didn’t realize it at the time.

It is no secret that the people we surround ourselves with come and go and change as we do but at the moment in time when you think, “we will be friends forever” you don’t foresee that changing.

Isn’t is just bizarre the way people drift apart…How the smallest change in your life will drastically change the company you keep?

The people that I still consider good friends I don’t get to see to often, which breaks my heart, but we all have our lives and have become so busy living in ‘the real world.’ I now think that the friendships that have lasted throughout college are the friendships I will have, at least for now, but at what point do college friends become ‘friends forever.’ Is there a time when you decide, these are the people I want to be friends with forever or is it life that decides that?

When it comes down to it, there are people that even in my last semester of college I thought were incredibly good friends and I would be friends with them forever, but fast forward a little less than a year and I no longer speak to them, and it really isn’t bothering me in the least..I am still going on living my life with a smile on my face and grateful for the amazing people I still do consider ‘friends.’