why am i friends with these people?

so i spend a lot of my life wondering how i find the friends i find...and why i'm still friends with them. i've got two sets of friends (when i say two sets i really mean about 10). i've got the friends that i've ridden the bus with from age 4 to age 16, the friends that i was only friends with because they went to high school with me and now we go to college together (the not-so-real-friends as i like to call them), then i've got the friends that i eat at d-hall with, hang out in my room after d-hall with, hang out one hour after they've left my room and we've eaten yet again at d-hall with, and live at hampden-sydney with (after our homework, eating, and everything else you can do at longwood is over with).

talk about a complicated life i lead! i've miraculously met 4 girls from my hometown that i have everything in common with from the way we all wear glasses at night and contacts in the day to the way we've all become less conservative since high school. and then to add to this group i've met 3 girls at longwood that we've all got only one thing in common (the fact that a certain curry suite had a major influence on our freshman year) but has all managed to shape the way we act, think, date, and even drink. (; there is also a group of hampden-sydney gentlemen that loves to hang out with us...is it because we're girls or is it because they actually enjoy hanging out with us? i choose the second one...even if its wrong.

there are many other groups but its too complicated to blog about...and well i just don't feel like explaining it to people that don't know me or them.

but anyways i guess i'm friends with all of these people because they are the people that i've become accustomed to and who have become accustomed to me as well. i'm not sure how things happen but they do. about once a month (yes this is how often we discuss this) my college friends and i discuss how we all met and how fucked up it is that we owe our BFF status to boys that we unfortunately still talk to.

is it the stars, luck, destiny, alcohol, or longwood's housing systems that bring my friends and i together? who knows. but for now whatever has brought me to my 10 groups of friends is working and i'm content. (;