I was friends with this girl since the beginning of the 9th grade. And for a 'military brat' that's a long time. I was sure she was my best friend. We did everything together. But as we got older, our differences became more and more pronounced. Maybe those differences were always there but I always turned the other way. As we got older, she stayed at home and I went off to college. Well that only served to create even more differences. I feel myself growing and becoming something better than I was, but I feel like she's just stagnant and not that I feel superior but I feel like a best friend is someone who will make you grow and challenge who you are in a way. I just feel like she has nothing to offer me anymore.
It wasn't until I met my little in my fraternity that I think I met my true best friend. He makes me look into myself and want better things and strive for better. I can actually say that we will still be just as good of friends 5, even 10 years from now. Like I think of us going our separate ways eventually because that's just where our careers will lead us and I almost choke on that simple thought. And that's something I didn't really feel like with my other friend. She sees us as growing old and being old friends together but I don't. I mean I still like her, and she's still my friend, but I just don't think we'll still be talking to one another as time goes on.
Maybe it's because my little and I want the same things in life, we are both driven and ambitious people and maybe that helps tie us together, or maybe I am being pompous and pretentious and have an issue with being friends with the girl that stayed home, didn't graduate and because a teen mom. But hey, no one is perfect and I never claimed to be.
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