Another year of college draws to a close. This year, however, is different from those that came before. This year some of my friends are graduating.
College creates a fantasyworld of learning and socialization. This is why they say that some of the best years of your life are spent at college. It’s a dream from which you must eventually awake. Going to the midnight showing of movie premiers, staying up until dawn talking, going to a coffee shop, playing LAN games, going to Walmart at 2am, helping each other with homework and projects, chair races in the hall, and witnessing a Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster eating contest—these are all indicative of the college lifestyle. Each student knows from the outset that their time in college is limited, and that one day they will leave the campus and the nexus of friendship, fun, and entropy behind. Life will go on.
You’ll tell your friends that you’ll ‘keep in touch’, but the truth is that that rarely happens, except with your 4 or 5 best friends. The majority of them, unless they are standing right there beside you mingling in your life, fade like awaking from a dream. I wish it didn’t have to be this way.
Thinking of my graduating friends fast-forwards me to a time a year or so from now when I’ll be in the same situation. I don’t want the dream to end.
Why can’t I find the snooze button?
I totally understand what you mean. So many of the closest friends I ever had, I never talk to anymore. It’s very sad really, I can count my longest friendships on one hand — 2 to be exact.