Last year (and college years previous) I spent every weekend with my friends... staying out late, tooling around Manhattan (KS), watching TV, talking, and just generally hanging out. Now, I'm far away from all of them, and haven't actually talked to them on the phone much because of schedules and whatnot. I miss each of them terribly - especially when I see groups of friends hanging out in my neighborhood on a casual Saturday afternoon. I can't explain what they have, but I understand it. I, too, shared that with my friends states away.
It's hard... I'm not sure how you make friends. It's also such a slow process... college was so different. We were all together for the same purpose - school. We had nothing to do but hang out all the time. Friends seemed to come a lot easier. Plus, I had my friends of forever there. We'd all come together, bring new friends, and help each other make friends. Here... I'm on my own.
I spent the day hanging out alone in this huge city full of people. It made me a little homesick... which is to be expected since I moved so far away from my comfort zone and everything that I knew so well into something so big, different, and unknown.
PS: I did get reminded of Manhattan (KS) though last night. Seth and I were coming home from seeing the new Batman movie. As we came down 5th Ave, lights were flashing, ambulance, police cars, caution tape hung at the intersection in front of our apartment. A stabbing... Kind of scary thought, but as I thought about it, we did have many incidents outside of the Seth's college digs... and we do live near the bar scene as Seth lived near Aggieville in Manhattan.
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