When I was younger I used to ride my bike around the block and quietly choose houses for all of my friends for when we grew up so we could be neighbors. I always gave them the fanciest houses and took the ordinary one for myself because I knew I would need to give them some sort of incentive in order for all of them to agree to move onto the street and stay forever.
I suppose it started young, this idea of always being near to those I'd miss. Even as I left high school, I was comforted in knowing what everyone was doing, even if we were apart, still going to school, living similar lives.
Now, as I see people I care so deeply for, or even those I've enjoyed the past few months getting to know in class, transitioning into whatever is next, it's sad. The truth is that many of us will never see each other again. People will move to different parts of the world, go off to various graduate schools, join the military and be shipped away, or just be off doing anything but enjoying college.
Sure, I may pass some of them on the street one day years from now & we will glance, thinking they look vaguely familiar or stop and chat for just a second but we will never have these moments back. They were fading since the beginning but now they've caught up to me & I realize that life is moving much quicker than I anticipated.
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