I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t once a romantic or how I still cry every time I watch "The Notebook." I would also be lying if I said that I never kept my head up and watched everyone who passed me just in case my soulmate walked by, you know the one that I have not met, yet.
But I would also be lying that I did not find my soulmate in my best friend.
What even is a soulmate? Most people associate a soulmate with a romantic partner that is your other half. Someone who understands you inside and out and compliments your existence on every figurative and literal level. My best friend is certainly not my romantic partner, but someone whom I have connected with on a spiritual level.
Even though the connection we share did not begin this way, especially with each of us having our preexisting friendships, we were always drawn to our friendship.
Neither of us saw it coming but we sure as hell are not complaining.
I was, and sometimes still is, someone that bottled up her emotions and never believed that talking to someone would help. My best friend was the first person I confided in. Someone I read my shitty poetry to and the first person that I would think about whenever I wanted to share important news. She never made me feel as if I was an inconvenience to her life or made me feel like I did not belong.
We both knew that our lives were so much richer with each other in it.
When you find somebody, who encourages you to be someone you could never have imagined to be and who makes you feel just as important as the air you breathe, never let them go. When you find someone who holds you when you need to be alone the most or you never doubt their presence even miles apart, never let them go. When you find somebody that sparks fires from damp, cold matches and manifests sunrises from midnights, never let them go.
My best friend is a descendant from the sun because her smiles are laced with stardust radiating from her core. With one look she understands everything I am feeling and exactly what I need. There is not one moment that passes by that I do not want to share with her. Even when we do not approve of what the other is doing, we never abandon ship because there is no one else we would rather have to pick up the pieces.
There is no one else I rather have stealing my sweaters, falling asleep to the first 10 minutes of the movie with or eating pounds of tiramisu.
My best friend is my soulmate. I would not say that we are the same entity, but our hearts and brains travel along the same frequencies. Our souls are activated whenever we are together, our laughs are our favorite songs and our beings vulnerable to absolutely every passing day. She has given me two of the best things in my life: myself and my best friend.
