… friendships. I miss friends with whom I can talk to about anything, and never want to stop. I miss friends who tell me exactly how it is without hurting my feelings. I miss friends with whom conversation never really stops, and even if it does, you just bask in the presence of having each other as friends. I miss playing in the rain, doing laundry at 2am, dressing up for halloween, making ourselves “pretty” for prom, making up nicknames for boys that revolve around candy, playing frisbee in the dark, getting yelled at by RAs, talking on a picnic table until the sun comes up … I miss all of those things.

I really firmly believe that our relationships with each other as human beings really serve as the foundation for our survival. When those relationships last through the tests of time, that’s when we find our soul mates whom we can connect with whenever, even if we haven’t connected for many many years.

I feel that most of my friendships now are rather superficial, surface relationships. My true friendships are with people as far back as middle school, but certainly high school and college as well. Maybe life gets progressively more complicated as we age, making true meaningful friendships progressively harder. I can’t explain it. I just know that I miss those friends.