We don’t often think of our parents as our friends or even on our side for most of our young adult life. I mean, come on, they’re always nagging and griping and yelling at us for literally anything, who needs that kind of person as a friend?
And it never really bothers anyone that our parents aren’t our friends, they’re our parents, they’re not cool, they’re not hip, they’re there to step in when things get tough and that’s that, right? Wrong.
Something I’ve learned while growing up is that parents are your first friends, they really do want the best for you and the person who has become my very best friend over the few years I’ve been in college is my mom. Here’s what I want to tell her every day when I wake up to see a brand-new day:
Mom,
I know I haven’t always been the best growing up, I’m hard – headed, headstrong, overly zealous about most irrelevant things but you’ve never once made me feel like I was doing anything I couldn’t excel at.
You’ve never made me feel like my ideas were wrong or my dreams were unreachable and most times, you were the only one standing next to me on the front lines fighting for them. You’re more than just my mom, and to be honest, I can’t even repay you for doing the amazing job you’ve done as my mother, let alone my best friend.
I never really considered what it would be like to have a best friend who is elegant, wise, graceful, gorgeous, radiant, and just all around amazing, and sure my friends are cool but none of them are even half of what you are.
You’re my shoulder to cry on, my first and last phone call of the day, when things get tough, when things just don’t add up, or when I have some juicy news to share, you’re the only one I want to share them with. If I had to choose someone to be my best friend, it’d be you one billion times over.
I know I’ve told you this before, and I’m not sure if you believe me, but if I could be just half the woman you are; half the wife, the mother, the sister, niece, aunt, and cousin, I’d be an amazing woman. From the moment you wake up, to the moment you go to sleep and every moment in-between, I love you.
Thank you for not only being my terrific mother, but also the realest person on my team. You’re the definition of squad goals, holding it down as one person. And if you’re the only person I have in my corner, I won’t sweat it, you’re honestly all I need.
Always and Forever,
Alexis
*Song that makes me think of you: Blue by. Beyoncé*
