The F Word

I'm not going to preach this time, I promise. Tonight I just want to share a little realization that I've made recently. I've heard all kinds of cliches about friendship, but this one is really striking to me this month: "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." How true! Graduation is less than 5 weeks away, and I've been see-sawing between excitement and trepidation for the next stage of my life. I've been worried that leaving BC will be the same as starting over completely and that I'll lose the friends I have here. Then I realized that I've been able to keep at least one good friend from kindergarten, another from high school, a third from the summer before college, and there will be many from college that I know I will still have after I graduate. Life doesn't just start over at every new phase as long as we cherish the friends who leave footprints on our hearts. Acquaintances come and go, but finding a faithful friend is really a treasure. I'm so grateful for the friends I know will always be there for me and will always make the effort to maintain our friendship. I'm so grateful that I don't have to start over!