I've had this friend for most of my life, 12 years in fact. Ever since childhood we've been together, discussing anime, video games, random shenanigans, etc. We would spend entire recesses during school just walking around the playground, having fun and in our own little world. There were no cellphones so the only thing we had to communicate were our words during school time.
Those were the days I missed.
As time passed and we went to our separate schools, our time together just became shorter and shorter. Sometimes it was a miracle that we'd even see each other once a week. But at least we still talked to each other and kept in touch when we eventually got our respective cellphones.
Then college came and things just became worse. No calls, no texts for months on end; I would practically beg and plead to hang out. I didn't want to lose such an important friend. She was like...my sister; we had so much in common and I love her like a sisterly friend could.
I would text her in spurts wondering if we could catch up and days would go by before I got a reply in return. I felt like hitting my head against the wall.
Time passed in this fashion as we got jobs. She would lock herself in her house and never talk to me. After her work, she wanted to pretend she didn't exist, that life still wasn't moving forward.
But let me tell you right now, just as I've told her, that the world continues spinning whether you want it to or not. You cannot lock yourself in your room and pretend that things will somehow magically be okay. Things will happen with or without you there; isn't it better to decide what happens, decide your own fate?
One day, years from now you'll look back at the days of today and wonder what happened. Maybe you could have done something differently, fought against your fate. Or maybe you'll just look back and ask yourself why you never did anything in your life. Why you wasted your precious youth back then sitting in your hole watching life pass you by.
Life won't stop, no matter how much we want it to. We are young, we have our youth, we have the ability to change the world around us one person at a time.
Enjoy the people around you; learn to love the things around you. Appreciate every moment for you'll never know when they'll stop.