Personal Narrative On My Best Friend Lexy

Everybody has that friend that ends up dragging everyone along when they’re dead set on something, for me that person was my best friend Lexy. The summer after my senior year was when Lexy and I decided to make a list, well she decided to make a list. It was like a bucket list, and we wrote down all the things we wanted to do together that summer before we started college. We were finally graduated from high school and excited to finally be adults and have some freedom. It’s the friends you have and the experiences you have with them at the young age of eighteen that impacts and stays with you forever. Camping was one of the many things on that list and also the first thing we decided to do. After a couple weeks of planning, we finally got our group together and landed ourselves at Pokagon State Park. Lexy and I had invited two of our friends from band Emily and Jared, along with my boyfriend Chase. After we got the tent set up and cars unpacked we decided to go to the lake. The entrance to the beach was extremely steep and somewhat of a challenge with all the rocks and twigs. The path had steps, but they were hardly defined, it was like a gravel slip and slide. When we …show more content…
We were able to cross at least that one thing off our list and it was only the first week of the summer. It was my first moment of freedom, that camping trips. It was the simplicity of spending two days with very close friends with no parents around and celebrating our graduation that made this camping trip so significant. My camping experience made me realize how important it is to take the time out to make good friends and make great experiences. In the movie Stand by Me one of the closing lines is “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” For me it was knowing that I’d never have friends like the ones I had at