Will I be okay next year, while my best friend is away?
My best friend is studying abroad next year for an entire year. She is only allowed to skype/email once per month. We are both REALLY close at school and spend a lot of the weekends together. I still have other friends to talk to (I won’t be a complete loser) but she really understands me and vice versa. She is the one person I can really talk to about ANYTHING. anyway, with her gone next year, I’m afraid I won’t know who to talk to when I need advice, or who to go shopping with, etc. It really is a bummer she won’t be able to communicate with me during her year abroad. Also I’m super scared that things will be awkward between us when she gets back. What if she is a completely different person? What if she doesn’t remember any inside jokes? This concept really scares me. What if she doesn’t tell me her secrets anymore? Please give me any advice you can. This is the one topic I can’t discuss with her…
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You will both experience new things and you will both grow. If your friendship is like many of mine, you’ll pick up like you never left off.
Since she hasn’t left yet, now would be a good time to begin strengthening those relationships with other friends so you won’t be as lonely once she’s gone. Of course, that doesn’t mean she’s no longer your best friend. It just means you’re diversifying your portfolio of friends a little bit.
I wouldn’t worry too much about things being awkward when she returns. I’m sure you’ll have many stories to tell about what happened to you during your time apart. You will probably pick up where you left off.
You will have many changes in your life. Getting new friends; losing old friends. You never know which it will be. But you will never lose what you have had together. Ask if she’s willing to write letters since you can’t call each other. Probably you’ll both be too busy with new things in your life do to it often. You’ll miss your old friend and she will miss you, but it’s opportunity time for you to see who you are. It will probably take a long time to find someone who will be as close as she was, but you never know. When she comes back, you should both have grown and can share what you have learned and experienced.
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