A best friend, according to the Oxford dictionary, is one's closest friend. Seems easy and pretty simple, right? Well, a best friend relationship is easy to develop, but to try and explain, that's where it gets complex. This is my attempt to put into words what a best friendship is really like.

1. The friendship started after you talked for hours the first night you met.

2. You know the other person too well.

You're in sync all the time. You know what the other person is thinking and feeling. Heck, you're pretty much the same person!

3. But you still manage to get shocked by each other's actions.

"YOU DID WHAT NOW?!?"

4. You text. All the time.

You know each other's texting habits and have developed a secret language.

5. You always do the most special stuff together.

6. If you end up being apart for a long period of time, when you're reunited, it's like nothing has changed.

If you're apart because of school, or if you live in different cities, or even different countries, you come back together and you pick up where you left off.

7. You share a Netflix account.

Yet you watch Netflix together...

8. You're each other's moms.

9. You don't knock when you walk into each other's dorm rooms or houses.

10. You're part of each other's families.

11. You don't care if you're spamming everyone's social media with pictures of just the two of you.

12. You make each other laugh all the time.

You know how to lift the other person up. If that takes singing at the top of your lungs together to make them laugh, then so be it.

13. You can talk about anything.

That's what deep life talks are for, and that's why they're the best to have with your best friend.

14. You've got each other's back. No matter what.

15. You make each other become the best version of yourselves.

16. For the religious, you bring each other closer to God.

17. You'll be each other's #1 forever.

You're two peas in a pod. You go great like peanut butter and jelly.

Ordinary life is a little less ordinary and more fun with each other.