When you’ve had a best friend for over 9 years, you’re bound to learn a thing or two from them. Even though I haven’t lived in the same state as my best friend since 9th grade, vacations and regular Facetime calls reassure me that nothing has changed from the time I left her. Though she’s impacted my life in more ways than one, here are the lessons I’ve learned from her thus far.
1. How to be indecisive
I’m already indecisive as it is, so throwing her indecisiveness on top of mine is sure to be trouble. It takes us at least an hour to try on clothes and even longer when deciding what we want to eat. I loathe when she has an event because I know that I’ll have to choose between the best of 16 pictures for her to post on Instagram.
2. How to weed out the bad apples
She might be a psychic, or maybe she’s just really good at reading people, but I can always count on her to let me know who is trouble. She’s great at doing this with guys too; anyone that knows her knows about her “standards”. If there’s any blonde hair, blue eyed, Jewish beauties out there with a good free throw and 4.0 GPA, I’ve got just the girl for you.
3. How to be an overachiever
She's president of multiple clubs, in a sorority, has a great GPA, and is currently in the market for an internship. I’m still trying to figure out how she does it all. I’m fine with being put to shame once in a while, but I’ve definitely taken a few pointers from her on how to be a working woman. For example, she just had a walk through of Kendra Scott’s office and I’m still wondering how she managed that.
4. How to be organized
When it comes to her personal life, this girl’s got a color-coordinated calendar. When it comes to her room, you might as well be walking into a war zone. A decent amount of the time we spent together when we lived in the same state was dedicated to organizing her room and getting her to throw out all the Claire’s jewelry she had been hoarding since 4th grade.
5. How to stalk all the "Bachelor"/"Bachelorette" contestants
Obsessed might be an understatement when it comes to our favorite reality TV show, The Bachelor. She can name every bachelor/bachelorette and their fiancés from the very first episode. Of course, we have our favorite couples. No, we don’t know where they live, what their pets’ names are, and we didn’t name our cars after our favorite couple (RIP Catherine).
6. How to perfectly edit pictures
Going along with my first lesson, along with picking the perfect picture comes picking the perfect edit. I edit my own pictures as well as hers since doesn’t have the patience to edit them herself. It's either too light or too dark and her indecisiveness comes into play when she makes me edit all 16 pictures so she can see which one she likes more.
7. How to send the mushiest texts for every holiday
Valentine’s Day, New Years, Thanksgiving, Christmas (even though we’re Jewish), birthdays, if you can celebrate it we most likely have something to say to each other. It’s gotten to a point where we no longer give each other gifts. Instead, we exchange long, sappy novels of text messages.
8. How to eat healthy
I’m forced to eat like a rabbit whenever I go to her house, but those 2 a.m. Oreo runs definitely held me over (Lisa, I promise it was just once)! She gets a salad even if we go to a burger joint and always ops for fruit instead of french fries. I personally will still go for the burger, but hey, that’s just me.
