Karma Is Your Girl Friends

In every stage of life as a woman, you have different friends by your side to support you. Growing up, it's the friends you play with on the playground and beg your parents to go home with on Monday's. In middle school, it's the friends whose house you sleep at every night, where you research boybands and learn your first cuss words. In high school, it's the girls you have your first sip of alcohol with and the ones who you brag to about the cute boy in your class asking you for help with algebra.

In college, I feel like there is no precedent for the type of friends you will have. 

There are party friends, there are class friends, there are weekend friends, there are roommates, and there are the select few who will check every box. Those are the few that will be standing beside you on your wedding day.

In the trusty Taylor Swift song, Karma, she sings "Karma is my boyfriend," and she may have been rewarded with a man, but I think that sometimes karma comes in the form of a friendship. 

Just to be clear here, I am not using karma in a negative connotation and I don't think Taylor was either.

Some friendships come along as a result of what you have previously done and your intentions in doing it. For me specifically, I grew up with friendships that I loved dearly. Girls that meant the world to me. But as time rolled out, I realized that our friendships were coming to an end. It was time I got my turn in having the sort of friendships you see in the movies. As I moved on to the next stage of my life, I was hoping for karma to bring some new women into my life. 

I knew that the friendships I had experienced growing up were lessons, sometimes obstacles, and often just temporary. It is the friendships I have now that allow me to realize that they are my karma.

Without being too gushy, the women I now surround myself with are supportive, understanding, compassionate, and the reasons for my own positive outlook on life. 

The important part to remember is that even if you are not in a stage surrounded by good friends now, if YOU are a good friend, you will be rewarded.