My Monologue

My first year at Baruch has been rather interesting. I’ve made new friends, have a completely different lifestyle, and have so much more homework. It’s crazy the amount of work high school teachers expect you to do and how much college professors want you to do. That being said – I’ve lost many of my close friends, which kinda sucks with this part of my life. They’ve all moved on to different colleges and other sorts of things so we have just lost contact. I haven’t talked to my best friend from middle school and high school in many months. We just have completely different lives that we lead now. Most recently, I’ve heard from another friend that he went to college for awhile then dropped out. I was disappointed to hear that, but for some reason I didn’t bother to contact him and ask why – I figured it’d be awkward. It’s funny because we always told each other that people lose friends all the time and make new ones but that wouldn’t happen to us. It was that way for awhile, but it obviously hasn’t lasted. We told each other we’d finish school no matter what – but he has already dropped out. He would always share his deepest secrets with me and vice versa, and now I don’t even know how he’s been the past couple of months and haven’t dared to ask. I guess the harsh reality is that people always lose the ones close to them for no apparent reason – it just happens. People get occupied with certain things in their lives and just move on to different endeavors. It hurts to think about it, but I guess that’s how life works.