Life drops the most random little things in your life sometimes. And the majority of the time, I don’t really understand why.. but I know that it’s definitely for some reason I probably can’t think of or understand right now.

These past few weeks, I think I had been slowly withdrawing into this cave of mine. I’m not sure if I just got tired of going out and hanging out with everyone… or if I’ve been in some kind of funk, but I think I’m finally over it. Yesterday, I had a pretty emotional night, which I think put things into perspective, and made me see how I should be really grateful for the many things I have in my life, and the countless number of wonderful people in it. So I thought I’d write about some of them a little bit today.

I met my friend, Marc, a little over four years ago because I had a strange itch to figure something out. I didn’t really expect that we would remain friends years after that moment.. but for some reason we did. Since then, we’ve definitely been through our fair share of tough times. I’m still surprised that we got through what we did, but I’m glad that we were strong enough to endure it. Having Marc in my life is something I’ll always cherish, and I know no matter what that I’ll have a place for him in my heart.

There’s also someone else I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. He dropped out of my life quite some time ago, and I’ve missed him ever since. Corey. He was one of those people I clicked so well with. It was rather strange how well we got along with each other. We would have these great conversations going late into the night. I miss those a lot. Since those days, he decided to move to Europe because that’s where he thought he belonged, much to my dismay. He first mentioned moving my junior year at LMU. And although it did catch me by surprise, and worried me.. and made me sad to lose someone so close, I never thought it would really happen. But it did. So, it’s been a little over two years since he left, and I’ve only heard from him a number of times. One I remembered well was when he called me last May to congratulate me on graduating. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I was in a rush, and didn’t get a chance to get his contact information. I haven’t heard from him since. But I hope he’s alright. And I hope, he’ll move back here some day because I really miss him.

Finally, there’s Jovelle and Luknam, who have been in my life for what feels like forever. In high school, we were inseparable. We pictured ourselves getting together after college to have lunch every other week to talk about relationships and sex. But after we graduated from high school, I was pretty sure that we wouldn’t be friends anymore because of all the drama we had gone through. We spent the majority of college with minimal contact. But after graduation.. some unknown force just brought us back together. And the fact that we’ve remained friends ever since hasn’t ceased to surprise me.