Power of a Friendship

The thought of leaving for college started to scare me a lot this past summer. During my senior year of high school, I made a best friend that has had a huge impact on my life. Her name is Alex Jones. I saw her every day of the summer except when I came to Virginia Tech for orientation. We were inseparable and I never thought I would be able to leave her.

I would say we started becoming really close friends around October. We played on the same softball team so we were already friends before we became close. I don’t really know what made us start hanging out all the time, but whenever we did we always had fun, no matter what we were doing. During the school year, I would spend the night at her house every weekend and on breaks I would stay almost every day.

One of the reasons why we became so close is because we were both so cool about everything. Most girls in our high school wanted to be a part of all the drama, but we always thought it was dumb. Sometimes girls would even try to start drama with us and we would just laugh at them like they were stupid. We figured that it was best not to have worries and to just have fun.
Another reason we became close is because we really understood each other. We could always tell when the other was upset about something. We both had problems sometimes and we always helped each other with those problems. I was always the one that had relationship problems so Alex would always have to help me with that. Last summer, Alex’s parents split up and that was the hardest thing for her. I would always talk to her about it because I knew she would feel better if she talked about it. We both had our share of problems, but we never let that get in the way of having fun with each other.

Alex and I were actually very different from one another. When we started hanging out a lot, she would want to go do things she considered fun. Before I met her, I never really knew what “mudding” meant. Alex owned a jeep, and one night she took me “mudding”. She was driving and skidding all around in it, until we got stuck. Once we got stuck that meant someone had to come pull us out. We waited for about 30 minutes, until her friend got there to get us out. I didn’t really think it was fun at first, but then I started to love “mudding”. I had never been a person that liked to get dirty, but once Alex and I became best friends, we did crazy stuff all the time. One day, Alex and I went to hang out with some other friends and they all decided they wanted to jump off of the bridge into freezing cold water. My first thought was, “They are out of their minds!” I was terrified of heights and had never been much of a dare devil. Alex practically begged me to jump with her and I told her I might if someone else jumped first. So then of course all the guys there leaped off the bridge into the water. They all thought it was so fun, but I was so scared to do it. I was standing on the ledge holding Alex’s hand, and that’s when I knew she was my best friend. No one could ever persuade me to do something like that unless they really meant something to me. So she counted to three and we jumped. It was one of the most fun things I have ever done.

This past summer, Alex introduced me to something else I had never done before. That was “mudding” on a four-wheeler. This gets very messy. Like I said before, I used to hate getting dirty, but I don’t think there is much that can get dirtier than this. The first time I went on a four-wheeler, I was wearing good clothes and let’s just say after that night they weren’t good anymore. We would ride into huge mud pits and there was mud flying everywhere. When we returned to the house that night, I had mud caked in my hair and it was all over my body. My first experience wasn’t the greatest because it ruined my clothes, but of course I went many times again after that and it did turn into one of my favorite hobbies. I was glad that Alex introduced me to all these new things because it taught me that I didn’t always have to worry about what I looked like and it made my life so much more fun.

Alex was always up to trying new things and because of her I am too now. Looking back now, I would say that I was a really boring person before I met her. She brought out the fun side of me and it made things so much better. I used to dwell over a lot of things, but ever since I’ve met Alex, I have been so happy. Even when I had breakups or other problems, I got over them real quick because she was right there beside me telling me that things would okay and life would go on.

Alex and I have a unique friendship because we rarely ever got in arguments or fights. If we ever did, it was something little and we got over it in about five minutes. I know that even if we do ever get in a big fight, that we will get through it because our friendship is that strong. Nothing will ever come between us. It’s been about three weeks now that I have been here at Virginia Tech. Although I love it here, I miss Alex like crazy and I cannot wait to go home and visit her.