Friendship is one of the many gifts that we get in life. It’s the weirdest thing also because you just see a human and then you start to talk to them and you’re just like, “Yes, I like this human.” And then all of a sudden, you and this human are friends and you can’t imagine life without them. Weird, I know.

The other weird thing I noticed is that when you make a friend, you do life with this friend and they know your ins and outs and they are now in all of your memories. This friend has become like half of you and you cannot see your life without this person, even though you’ve lived life without this person before. It just becomes unfathomable to even think about anymore. So, it’s a friendship and it’s greater than any relationship because you don’t feel any kind of pressure to be perfect or to have to do things. You and this friend could literally sit around and eat Nutella out of the jar and quote episodes of "Grey’s Anatomy."

But what happens when you and this friend break up? What if you are no longer friends anymore? No one talks about this in movies because a break up with a spouse is hard, but have you ever broken up with a best friend? That is crushing and heartbreaking. Literally, your heart seems to burst. Because you were friends with this person and you shared your inner most secrets and they stayed forever and then all of a sudden, they walked out of your life. What do you do then? Is there a manual for that?

I think – and this might sound ridiculous – that those friendships are great. When someone leaves your life like that then that means they have impacted you just as if a boyfriend/girlfriend would. They helped you to grow and figure things out about yourself that you’ve never known before and now you do. These are heartbreaks, so it’s okay to cry and it’s okay to not want to delete pictures of you and this person for a long time because somewhere in the back of your mind you are hoping to get back together.

Friendships – when with the right people – make you forget about every care in the world. Your problems are their problems and vice versa so you can figure everything out to help them and they help you. Friendships are major. They will help combat loneliness and stress and many other different things. You and your friends won’t always get along and that’s okay because in a few hours you can talk it out and then things go back to the way that they were.

Never take friendships for granted. This person – or people – chose you out of many people that they could have chosen, but didn’t. They opened their arms to you and trust you and love you so don’t take your friendships for granted. Love hard no matter the outcome.