Friends Can Last A Lifetime

Leaving college is truly heartbreaking. It may feel a lot like when you graduated from high school and you thought you were leaving your whole world behind you when you went off to college. When I graduated from college, I left my best friends and my roommates, my study buddies, my shoulders to lean on and my strength. However, this summer, I have re-discovered friendships that I thought had been lost.

By working at the summer camp that changed my life, I have re-united with those people who have helped to shape me into who I am. Though we did not talk as much as we would have liked throughout college, seeing them everyday is a reminder of why I am working for pennies at a program that is so amazing that it is indescribable. It took a week or two to get back on the same page, but now it's like we never left. They have helped to ease my fears about entering the real world, not by comforting me, but by showing me that friendships are forever. A chapter of my life is over, but a new one is beginning and only adding to the story of my life, not replacing any part of it.

As I look through my scrapbook of the summer I met these two amazing friends, I think of how far I have come since being only a freshman in high school. However, even then, I knew who I wanted to be and was able to find that in myself at the program called Project Contemporary Competitiveness (P.C.C.). Being together again makes me realize that although people change, some things will always be the same. These friends have impacted my life in ways that I can only now recall. Seven years went by, yet it seems like I saw them only yesterday. I can only hope that this has taught me to keep in touch with those I love and never forget their importance in my life.