this is such a silly question but how do you make this many lovely friends? i am in my first month at college and i'm scared i'll never find any. it is all i have ever wanted. you write so beautifully.
dear friend, you are at such a precious and exciting moment in your life, and also a really terrifying one. i was in my first year of college ten years ago and can still remember the feelings you have right this moment.
stay open to every experience. the right people will come to you, but you also have to be willing to go to them. the kind of friends you think you’ll have are very different from the ones you will. and this is a good thing. the friends i have are a quilt i’ve put together while living (and sadly leaving) many places, of trying and failing to make connections, and accepting those connections will change because time and space promise only that constant. i believe you have a decade of quilt making ahead of you. the loneliness is inevitable but a necessary component that hopefully will teach you to be open rather than closed (i recommend rilke’s ‘letters to a young poet’ if you haven’t read it)
this is such a silly question but how do you make this many lovely friends? i am in my first month at college and i'm scared i'll never find any. it is all i have ever wanted. you write so beautifully.
dear friend, you are at such a precious and exciting moment in your life, and also a really terrifying one. i was in my first year of college ten years ago and can still remember the feelings you have right this moment.
stay open to every experience. the right people will come to you, but you also have to be willing to go to them. the kind of friends you think you’ll have are very different from the ones you will. and this is a good thing. the friends i have are a quilt i’ve put together while living (and sadly leaving) many places, of trying and failing to make connections, and accepting those connections will change because time and space promise only that constant. i believe you have a decade of quilt making ahead of you. the loneliness is inevitable but a necessary component that hopefully will teach you to be open rather than closed (i recommend rilke’s ‘letters to a young poet’ if you haven’t read it)