Friends Forever?

It's been a long time since I wrote, and my only excuse is placement fever and post-placement writer's block.

Hoping that at least this one last year would be trouble free has proved to be disastrous. Yet it doesn't bother me much, as at the end of it all, the people who I care about and who should matter to me aren't the ones I have any complains against. I know one thing for sure, that when I pass out, I'll at least know who my true friends are, and it's real good to know that. One true friend is worth more than a million fake ones. I really wish people around me would realize that as well.

College is supposed to be the best years of one's lives, and sadly I cannot say that because I have been through a lot. People say that the friends you make in college will be your friends for life, and it took me three years to realize who can become my friends for life and who cannot. Friendship is not to be taken lightly, but most people around me do take it lightly. Yet I don't blame them, for at some point in our lives, we all take friendship for granted.

I had a friend in school, and I guess after I joined college I neglected her. I never meant to, for she doesn't know it but she still means a lot to me and always will, no matter what happened between us, but somewhere something went wrong and now we don't talk anymore. Misunderstandings happen, and if not fixed at the right time, they become things you learn to regret for the rest of your lives.

What college taught me about friendship is never to take it for granted and to learn to cherish your friends for life. True friendship comes rarely and in the strangest forms, at the strangest times. If you let these friends slip away, it'll just leave an emptiness that will never go away, provided you realize your mistake. The worst part is that most people don't realize their mistakes, or realize them too late.

In the future, I'll do my best to make an effort to never take anyone for granted, because it's a really bad feeling, and I know how it feels. College life has taught me a lot...