some friendships we fall into slowly, almost magnetically. others require us to decide: yes, I will call you friend. You will be my [fill in activity of choice] buddy. You will be who I cry to when I can't study anymore; you in the pink, you will go with me to find entertaining ways to pass my time. You will call me friend even though "friend" may last only until the next communication.

It is now that I find my friends flung into my life, placed gently, and decided upon as a recourse to action much like rubbing a paperclip with an old magnet.

Friends.