Chelsea

Chelsea and I have an interesting friendship.  On one hand, we’re total opposites.  Chelsea is militantly uber-liberal, atheist, very Boston, she’s a big girl in personality and also size, she’s gorgeous, and is an excellent student.  I’m totally opposite her on the political spectrum (I’m not sure if there’s any issues we agree on), immersed in the Jewish world/Judaism, little in size, I’m a Jersey girl/Southerner wannabe, definitely nowhere near as exciting a personality nor as beautiful, and I’m a total slacker.  Pretty much the only thing we have in common is that we both speak French, but that’s where the similarity ends because we have completely different motivations for studying French.

That said, we just got back from the diner.  It’s only this year that we’ve really started spending time one-on-one because we live in the same building.  I’ve known her all four years at school and we haven’t always been close (True story:  Freshman year, she literally dragged me out her room when we were watching baseball and I said I was a Yankees fan and I had rugburn on my ass for a week.)  But now we’ve become a lot closer in a way.

Like we understand each other very well.  We’re both in relationships right now of completely different characters, but we both know what it’s like to be in a relationship with a guy you really love and care for, and yet struggle because you aren’t compatible with him.  We both know what it’s like to appreciate the stability of a relationship yet miss the carefree liberty of flirting (and sometimes more than flirting) with random people.  We’re both experiencing friendships that have changed and some that we’ve lost completely, and we’re both asking the question of who we’ll remain friends with after graduation.  We both know what it’s like to be politically active, interested in what going on in the country and the world, actively involved in campaigning and lobbying, even though we’re on opposite sides.  We both know what it’s like to have little sisters who are better than we are at everything.

There was one time this year when Chelsea and I were pouring our hearts out slightly tipsy over quite a few bottles of wine.   It was more low-key at the diner just now, but same idea.

Chelsea and I aren’t the kinds of friends that hang out all the time.  We have a lot of the same friends and we’ve gone out together, but we socialize in different ways.  And she’s not the kind of person whom I would call on the phone and have a conversation with and she feels the same way about me.  But that said, she is someone I’m truly going to miss when we graduate and I sincerely hope I stay in touch with in some way.