So I guess I can't really consider myself a hopeless romantic because love is like this dark abyss that just makes me question my existence; but I can't consider myself a realist because I believe in love in so many other ways and I feel that having a black and white answer for everything in this vast universe is a load of crap- ya feel?

So, I'm writing on behalf of something one of my long time best friends Brook Legassey said to me the other day. She said, "I believe your friends are your soulmates, like the four of you guys are my soulmates- and that's all I need". This one little sentence reminded me that I believe the same and I seemingly always have, but I've lost myself along the way of this journey we call life. I suppose that friends are soulmates; seven billion people are put on this earth and you are born and placed in the same town and school as these people and by chance you become friends and I do believe that is a work of fate. I'm not a religious person (I mean really I believe in an after life but it's with aliens- that's a whole other article in itself) but, I do believe in fate and that we're all connected somehow and those connections happen for a reason.

You see, I wouldn't be half the person I am today without my friends because friends give you life, and hope, and laughter, and purpose. Friends are a reason to wake up everyday, and want to smile and have fun and just breathe. Friends are the most lifelike part of any persons soul and the ache in your cheeks when you can't stop laughing. Friends are the shoulder you can cry on and they don't care if snots get on their shirt because who cares about boogers when you friend is hurting?

Friendship can be good and bad and it can make you or break you, but friendship is what creates the foundation of who we are and if that's not a soulmate then I'm not sure what is. You see, a soulmate by definition is "a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner" (Google). I believe this so much because sometimes I look around and I realize that I don't need anyone but my friends. I wake up every morning and remind myself that if I have no one else to wake up for that I have my friends. And I find myself being the best version of myself with my friends- but most of all I feel comfortable being the worst version of myself around them too, because I know and will always know that they love me regardless.

"The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
– Eugene Kennedy

Look around people, because while you so desperately try to find your soulmate I see my soulmate(s) almost every day and I couldn't more thankful to be able to say that.