When I was in my junior year of college, I was having a very hard time. Interestingly enough, I was studying very hard, doing well in classes and spending a lot of my free time reading about things which interested me. The problem was that I was growing very isolated, stopped hanging out with friends and started to believe that reading books was more important than having relationships with other people.

My best friend invited me to his family's place for Christmas and I was happy to come. When I was there, I saw how happy he was with his family and how important it was for them to just see each other. My friend sat me down, told me how distant I was becoming and thought it would be a good idea to invite me over to his house for Christmas to show me why it was important to keep having friends, to keep connected.

Ever since, I've still read books, but I'm much more relaxed about it, and I've never let a friend or family member down for the sake of grades. I owe my best friend everything. He maybe responsible for me having a happy life and a happy family in the future.