Friends Forever

The end of the school year is here once again. This time, it'll be the last high school year for the class of 2016. Every senior attending Holbrook High School is excited for May 20, 2016, to come. It is great hearing my other peers tell me about what they will be doing after high school or where they will  be going to college. I think it is pretty amazing how we have everything so planned out. We tell ourselves that everything from our high school days will follow us and stay with us throughout life. Everything, as in what we learned. The big question is: what about our friendship?
Ever since we were small kids in kindergarten, we told each other that we were best friends and would be friends forever. On occasion,  our "best friend" would steal something of ours. Then just like that, the friendship we shared is now over. Lucky for us, high school was never like this. The people we've been stuck with for hours on week days for the last four years has become a big part of our lives. Over the last four years, we have grown and matured with each other. We learned the same exact thing and to think exactly the same. We grew trust in one another and decide which other human being we actually like the most. This is where our real friendship grew.
These last few days of our senior year are tough. We are all trying to get good grades that we could take with us to college. We are studying and hoping for the best to pass our class finals. As seniors, in addition, we also have to plan our graduation. As you can see, we are way too busy being stressed out from the real work being thrown at us. We have absolutely no time to think about each other.
We don't think about each other because we tell each other we'll be heading to same college. If we attend the same college, we don't have to worry about not seeing each other. Unfortunately, this is not true. If you take a look at the recent graduates, most of them are not together no more. They started out just fine getting ready to attend the same college, but once they got there, everything changed. They didn't share most or any of their classes together, and they found new friends in their dorms. Either way, they lost contact with one another. Of course, they still talked through social media, but the more they didn't physically see each other, the more distant they became. The only thing that tied them together for years is high school.
It is really scary thinking about each of our friendships. Trying to keep it alive is going to be tough like trying to keep cement from drying up. You gotta keep feeding it with water, but once you run out, it will dry up fast. As seniors, we'll miss our teachers and the way everything runs. Most of all, we will miss each other.