To My Best Friend Graduating,
I don't want you to graduate. Well, I do because I want you to be successful, but I don't want you to leave me. I cannot wait to see you be successful but it still sucks watching you walk across the stage and know that you are now on to bigger and better things.
As your senior year started you were not allowed to say the dreadful g word to me, whenever you did I would shove you or just act like I was not listening because if I didn't hear that word, well that meant it wasn't real. Well, now it's 45 days until the dreadful g word and I am no where near ready. You are about to get your first big girl job in your big girl house. Sounds scary, doesn't it? You are going to have to be an actual member of this big world, not just our little college world.
Even though I'm dreading that day, I also want you to know how proud I am of you and how I will still always be there for you. I only met you at the beginning of your senior year, it feels like I have known you my entire college career, and with a conversation of three words, we became best friends, you have grown so much since then and it brings tears of happiness to my eyes. I am so incredibly proud of you. I will stay only be a call or text away when you get that call about your first job, when you tell me about your new works friends (I know they will not be as cool as me), when you get your first pet and everything exciting and heartbreaking that may happen to you. I will stay always be there. You are about to do so many things that you've dreamed about for the past four years and so many more exciting things, I will be right there to hear about all of it and celebrate, or if something doesn't go your way, I will be there with a hug, a bottle of wine, and a shoulder to cry on.
You have helped me grow in your last year at college without even realizing it. You have helped me find myself when I didn't know I was lost, you helped reach my goals and you've picked me back up when I fell short of those goals. I know when it is my turn to entire the big, scary real world, you will be right there to guide me through it.
Love always,
Your Forever Friend
