Dear best friend’s new friend,

You are receiving this letter because you are a new friend of my best friend, and in that sense, CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve just made one of the best decisions of your life! Well, I hope it was your decision. You probably know how she can be by now….forward, overbearing, but not desperate. There is nothing about my best friend that’s desperate. The art of unprovoked kindness is a lost one lately, but don’t worry! Our best friend is a treasure, or maybe the treasure hunter. She digs out the best in everybody.

I want to tell you why I am friends with my best friend, and hopefully, in the process, you’ll understand your role in this relationship. I don’t mean to be blunt. Just forward, and maybe a little overbearing. I met my best friend when I didn’t have a best friend. I was crazy about making new friends. But I wasn’t desperate. We aren’t desperate, remember?

We bonded over our compatible personalities: my desire to be loved and her desire to love. And while I know we are all going into the next phases of our lives with one hand trailing behind us, holding onto old best friends, I hope that doesn’t keep you from extending a hand all the way forward because my best friend has the sexiest hands, and she would gladly take one of yours.

And that brings me to my biggest point: Don’t ever question her kindness because if you question it once, the next time you need it she’ll be afraid to give it to you. That’s just how she is. It only takes so many slaps on that sexy hand before she’ll be afraid to stick it back out there again. But let’s be honest, she’ll never stop trying.

And once you get a grip on that tiny wrist, don’t let go. She’ll seem like she’s ready to take on the world, but it’s your job to hold her down. Just a little. Just a reasonable amount. Just enough that when it gets dangerous or someone might break her heart you can turn her around and look her in the eyes and tell her what she needs to hear. She’ll listen because she’ll love you.

And please, look her in the eyes for me when you talk, because eye contact is one of the many things that gets filtered over Snapchat. And she has really pretty eyes.

Laugh at her jokes even when they’re not funny. Tell her she looks beautiful when she isn’t wearing makeup. Let her know she can talk to you about anything.

Because I swear to God if I come home and she has lost any of her luster, any of the shine that she wears like a raincoat, if she no longer reflects hate in the opposite direction, dives head first into puddles, and fills her rain boots with rainbows I’m going to hold you personally accountable.

Yes, she’s a storm, but she is also the one who dances in the rain. And it is our responsibility, people like us, to make sure she doesn't slip and fall.

My best friend taught me everything I know about being kind, and if you by any means tarnish that, I will have lost a part of myself as well.

Let me just tell you what I hope you have already learned for yourself: She is one of the best people you will ever meet, and if you disagree, you don’t deserve her.

She is a treasure. She is a treasure hunter. She is a storm. Oh! But she is not desperate.

Congratulations, and I can’t wait to meet you someday.

Sincerely,

Your new friend’s best friend