My best friend just went to college; I'm a high-school senior. He's trying to convince me to go to the school he's at now. He's honestly the best person my age I've ever met, and I'm so happy whenever I'm with him. It comes down to whether I pick an academically better school (or at least a school with a better reputation) over the first person to change my life fundamentally. He's said things things like, "One day you'll learn/ no place will make you happier" than where the people you love are (not verbatim, of course). The thing is that I wonder if I'm still "someone else's point of view," because everyone I talk to says it's awful to follow people to college and that, if a "better" school will have me, I should go there, and I think I believe them. So I "live in regret / it hurts to know how much [I]'ll miss." I'm already regretting not going with him before I've even made that call. It hurts to know that I may lose the best friendship I've ever had because we won't be together - and it all comes down to what I choose.
My best friend just went to college; I'm a high-school senior. He's trying to convince me to go to the school he's at now. He's honestly the best person my age I've ever met, and I'm so happy whenever I'm with him. It comes down to whether I pick an academically better school (or at least a school with a better reputation) over the first person to change my life fundamentally. He's said things things like, "One day you'll learn/ no place will make you happier" than where the people you love are (not verbatim, of course). The thing is that I wonder if I'm still "someone else's point of view," because everyone I talk to says it's awful to follow people to college and that, if a "better" school will have me, I should go there, and I think I believe them. So I "live in regret / it hurts to know how much [I]'ll miss." I'm already regretting not going with him before I've even made that call. It hurts to know that I may lose the best friendship I've ever had because we won't be together - and it all comes down to what I choose.