No Ship Like Friendship

Have you ever thought you were destined to meet certain people? Like, by some miracle of God the stars aligned and you just got lucky and met really perfect people that love you and get all your weirdness and won't abandon you even when you get stressed out and bitchy?

That's kind of how I feel about my friends.

I like to help out with my school's drama fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega. I started way at the beginning of the year when a friend convinced me to help out with a haunted house that the group was hosting.  It. Was. Such. A. Good. Idea. I finally met people who like all the same things as me, have tumblrs, and more importantly, have prime taste in music. For the first time since I came to Gannon, I truly felt at home.  And it's not just because we all have this strange addiction to the internet and love of musical theater.  I think we all get along so well because we've been through the same stuff.  We've all been rejected. We've all felt like we were never good enough.  We've all made stupid mistakes.  There's this girl, Other Mary, who is literally me in every way possible. Not only do we share the same name, major, and obsession with Joseph Gordon Levitt, but we have the same sense of humor and we've been through similar situations.It's kind of scary how similar we are.

Then there's my friends at home. And by "at home" I mean "I see them during the summer" because one lives six hours away from me, one lives near Chicago, one lives in fucking New Zealand and the other two live back in Ohio.

They are probably the greatest friends anyone could ever ask for.  They've always been there for me, even when they're dealing with their own issues.  These are the girls that understand me better than any therapist ever could.  We don't get to see each other much anymore, but when we do get together, it's like we were never apart. I feel incredibly lucky anytime I get to hang out with one of them, even if it's just in the McDonald's parking lot eating a large fry and drinking Sweet Tea.  I don't know how we all found each other and formed this weird group of the Six, but I'm so happy it happened.

"And it's been a long time since I've seen all my old friends/ But I really love  my new friends/ I feel I've known them a long while"