Easy come, easy go.

People come, and people go. A simple, true statement about everybody's life. Not everyone you meet is going to stay around forever. But sometimes if you are lucky enough, you get quite a few people who come into your life, and don't go. That's not always to say that their presence in your life won't have it's difficulties. There will arguments, there will be fights, there will be moments when you say the words "I wish I'd never met you," knowing full well that you don't mean that. There might be times when you don't talk for awhile- whether it's because you're having a disagreement, you had a stupid fight about stupid petty stuff, or you're both just really busy and although talking to them remains a priority, things like sleep and work and eating override that. Long-lasting friendships like this aren't easy, in fact they are EXTREMELY hard work. But it's the moments where you're drunk at a bar screaming about getting some "mother-effing chicken fries" and your best friend finally complies (after helping your drunk self down a couple flights of VERY steep stairs) that make all that hard work worth it. Moments when you miss your turn into town and end up taking the scenic route home, and pass the corner where we sat parked for 10 minutes because I was stubborn and wouldn't say which direction to turn. Memories that you'll never forget (and some memories that you can't really remember.) It's in those moments that the hard work of keeping up a long-lasting friendship is worth it. Sometimes, the effort of these relationships gets to you, and you just want to throw in the towel because it doesn't really seem like its's worth it. But you talk yourself out of it because you know you'd be 40 times more miserable without them in your life at all,  than you are with the arrangement that isn't perfect but doesn't completely suck. And we don't get to talk as much as we want, and we don't get to see each other as much as we want, but when I need them, they're always there for me. And I hope they know that the same goes for them.