Third Grade

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mohandas Gandhi

Who was your best friend in the third grade? Write about them...

I had the same two best friends all the way through elementary school. Well, at least until I moved to France in the fourth grade. Jessica Martell, Kristi Anderson, and I all lived in Sugar Creek and spent nights together (Jessica's parents would make us sushi), swam on swim team (Kristi always had all blue and red ribbons), watched Jem and the Holograms, and played all sorts of strange make-believe games: we were in a rock band, we owned a cool restaurant, we were the girlfriends of tennis stars....
The strangely sad thing is, for so much time and for so many memories I have with these two girls--I have no idea where they are now or what they are doing. Are they married? Where do they live? I don't even know where they went to college!
I have read a quotation before that some people are meant to be in our lives for only a short time, leaving their mark, and then moving on to other things...and in this case, it must be true. I'll admit that moving around so much in my life has left me with a lot of such friendships.
But I hope as I leave one place and begin again in another that I also leave my mark, that I'm not afraid to risk caring for people just because our time is temporary.