Friendship

Claire has been my best friend since our freshman year of high school. We have had our ups and downs but we always manage to stay in touch and remain at the very least good friends. Since graduating high school and going to college in the northwest, I have pretty much lost all of my friends in Tucson. I have Claire, Lauren, and Marica, who is from Phoenix but she goes to school at the U of A so I see her at the times before she or I leave Tucson. But...that's pretty much it. There's Lorrie, who I haven't seen since May 2011. There's Nora, who is so distracted by the friends she made during her senior year of high school to bother seeing any of her friends who graduated (ie Claire and me). There's Savannah, who I'm not even going to get into.... Ugh. Oh there's Molly! Wait- I think she lives in California now. I mean, she hasn't come back to Tucson and she goes to school in LA, so I would assume she's living there. Oh and her dad's the mayor of Tucson, so that's pretty cool. So basically, I have three friends here. And I am honestly okay with that. The more I'm alone, the more I want to be alone, so it would just stress me out having to be around people all the time or having to make excuses because it's not socially acceptable to tell someone that you just feel like being alone today.

Claire, however, is different. She visited me up at school during her Spring Break and during her entire visit I didn't once think, "man, I wish she would leave so I could have some alone time." There are just some people, very very few I think, who you can be around and feel totally comfortable and at ease around and you don't need that alone time to recover from a social situation because the stress that accompanies such situations isn't there. I feel really, really lucky that I have a person like that in my life.

I love you Claire!

Days Until I Go Back to School: 17