I remember meeting my best friend like it was yesterday. This black, nerdy guy gave off the hipster vibe, while still giving off a hip-hop feel.
It was just another day, I was tabling for my organization on Move-In Day. As I'm tabling, the president of my organization comes by and this guy comes to tag along. I converse with my fellow e-board members and make sure to include this new face in the conversation. I then realize this guy is pretty cool and I wouldn't mind talking to him if I had to, but I though it was kind of weird how he seemed to show interest in me. I paid no attention to it though and moved on. He would come back and forth to my table and converse, which was fine, but I soon found him staying longer and longer. As the event wore off, I began to clean-up my table and proceeded to leave. As I leave, I notice some mutual friends and stop to talk, to my surprise there he is talking amongst my mutual friends and we soon learn that we share more than one mutual.
A week later I see him again, we stop to say a polite hi and he proceeded to pronounce my name incorrectly. I then see how this becomes a game between us and our relationship progressed. As we were in the same organization, I began seeing him more and more.
As time went on I found myself hanging out with this guy more than any other person I'd ever met on campus. We shared a lot of things in common even though we were totally different people, but we had the same views on life. Although he was younger than me, I came to admire his unique, worldly personality.
We eventually started dating and it was great. I enjoyed the days he stood by my side, helping me through homework, pushing me to continuing engineering when I felt I couldn't anymore. He helped me with my anxiety, things no other person could imagine to match. He became my closest guy friend. Unfortunately, our dating era went sour and we have gone our separate ways since then.
These days I spend my semester without him and I don't see him as often, for its been a month. There are days I miss him and contemplate whether I should shoot him a call/text or not. Though I know I don't miss him as my dating partner, I miss his presence as my best friend.
For me he will forever be my best friend; no matter what.
