Keeping In Contact With Friends

One of the challenges with going off to school is trying to keep a part of your old life intertwined with your new life. I'm lucky because I know quite a few people that are going to my university from home, but a lot of people don't get that. It's hard to keep in contact with your friends from home, whether they've gone off to other schools, stayed back for a year, or moved to other places. It's tough, and if you ask a lot of people, they're going to tell you that it just isn't possible. I'm going to be honest, a lot of people try, and it just doesn't work - but it can.
Even I'm finding it hard to stay connected to some of my old friends.
I think one of the hard concepts to grasp is that people grow and change... And sometimes we don't understand that and just can't realize that people can grow apart. At times, all it takes is people to grow apart so that they can come together again.
Sometimes we just have to learn to let people go, so they can grow, and so we can grow. Just because you're saying goodbye to someone for now, it doesn't mean it's for forever.
But you know what? You can totally still keep in contact with you friends or girlfriends or boyfriends and whatnot. There's someone on my floor who has a girlfriend back in California, and he's in Ontario. Another girl on my floor lives 10 hours away form her boyfriend. Both of these couples have found ways to make their relationships work. I have a friend at school that is originally from British Columbia, and she's going to school here in Ontario. She still keeps in contact with her friends.
With so many kinds of social networking websites and programs that help us connect to people, facebook, twitter, tumblr, skype, computers, and our phones, the world makes it pretty easy to keep in contact with people.
In the end, it takes two people, and it takes effort from both sides to make something work.
Distance can kind of be like a test; a test to see who is worth the trouble and who is worth it to you.
All in all, I think it's also important that you try to keep old friendships, but also make new ones. If you're always surrounding yourself with the same people, then you're never getting to experience new people. While making new friends can be scary, it's something that you definitely should try.

"Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other is gold."

I know this has kind of been a lame post, but really, keeping in contact is something that you're going to have  to deal with when you're going through school.
It can be sad, feeling like you're being left behind or forgotten, but the great thing is that you have the power to try and change these things, you can make an effort, and you can make new friends.
I've been through this, and you will too, or maybe you already have. I hope that you've made the right decision for YOU if you have already, and if you haven't yet, just stay true to yourself.