Who knew?

It's funny how certain events and situations can make you feel close to people. It's crazy how you can become really good friends with people you might have never talked to, had you both not been put together in some way or for some reason.

Case in point. One of my friends in high school, Tia. Our interests and our personalities were rather different. It took us a while to become friends, but after we started driving together to seminary every morning, we ended up becoming great friends. There's something that irreversibly brings people together about waking up every morning at 5:30 for 4 years to drive in sub-zero temperatures, sub-sub zero windchills, and piles of snow and layers of ice to study the scriptures.

Kate Toone. We actually realized later on that we had had some classes together our freshmen year of college, but never got to know each other until we were roommates together in Paris, doing study abroad. I remember the first afternoon in Paris, when we just found out that we were gonna be roommmates... we just kinda looked at each other and were both like "ok, alright, sweet." And it was freakin' amazing. Again, there's something about sharing Paris, France, and Europe every day with someone awesome that makes you inseparable.

Most recently. The French house. Oceane and Christina. I swear we are all the same person in so many ways. I know exactly what every one of their expressions means. We made it through the "chaos cloud" week even stronger than before. The term kindred spirit comes to mind. Seeing that we are all either majoring in French (tina), minoring in French (me), or are French (oceane), the chances of us seeing each other in passing in class or at a French club event are fairly high, but unless we had all decided to live in the French house, the chances of us being friends... yeah not so high.

Even on a smaller scale. There are certain people that I've had classes with, or that I pass on campus and recognize. I don't know them at all, but it still feels like we're buddies.

For some of my friends, I sorta knew them for a while, even for a few months, but then somewhere in there we start hanging out more and more often, and suddenly, that person that was an "acquaintance" has just become one of your best friends.

You never know who you're gonna meet, or what effects certain decisions will make on the people that become your friends and some of the most important people in your life. I've decided that life is just funny like that.