Dear best friend,
Choosing to go to different colleges has been an eye-opening experience. While being surrounded by completely new people and starting over in a college hours away from home, I had to learn how to make friends again. In this search, I found myself looking for girls that were a lot like you, with the similar bubbly personality with a taste for the same food and the same taste in music as me. I'd see girls here that remind me of the things you and I would do together and I'd notice parts of us in their friendship. Ye,t I felt regret knowing that I wasn't able to share my college experience with you alongside me.
Fast forward a few months, and I have several close friends and even one girl I can call a best friend. We spend almost every day together and go out to lunch and spend our weekends out and about town. I'm constantly telling you stories of the adventures we go on and talks of being future roommates with her. You watch all the Snap stories I post with her and scroll past all the Instagram photos and I know exactly what you may feel: replaced. But that's nowhere near true. It's actually completely impossible.
Even though I have made new friendships and adjusted to life in college, it still feels if a part of my every day routine is missing, and it's impossible to fill that void and even though you're no longer just a text away to go shopping with, you're still the girl I want waiting outside the dressing room to tell me the outfit looks better on the rack than on me. You're the one I wish I could wake up and call on a Saturday morning and relive stories of the night before.
If anything, the distance has made me realize just how important our friendship is to me. It opened my eyes to how important it is to Skype every week or to make time for an hour long phone call just to catch up because texting everyday isn't enough. Yes, I still wish you were here alongside me, but in some twisted way, the distance has only made our friendship stronger and proven that it can withstand anything.
You make coming home for holidays, breaks, and random weekends that much better. You make any bad day better with a FaceTime even if there isn’t much for us to talk about. You’re still my favorite dinner date, my partner in crime, my fellow white rapper lover, my favorite person to surprise, the girl who knows me best, my rock, my future bridesmaid, my best friend. And I am so blessed to be able to call you all that and more.
And you will always be my very best friend, and my number one.
