Hi, friend, I feel like I can call you that… I just wanted to pop in and say thank you. You’ve been around a longer than I have; she and I only became friends when we met in our freshman quad last year. It would have been very easy for you to write our friendship off as fleeting and unimportant in the greater scheme of your lives together, but thanks for not doing that. I appreciate the fact that when you come around, I don’t feel cut out from her life, if anything you sort of force more friendship.
Thank you for investing yourself in a friendship with me as well, knowing that it was important for her and me. Thanks for adopting me on Saturday mornings and dragging me to breakfast with y’all, so I would actually get to see her every once in awhile. Thanks for taking pictures for me like a dad when I went off to parties and for having an opinion about the boys I’d meet. Thank you for treating me like another important aspect of her life, and the life you two share.
However, even more than just the warm invitation into the circle that I received from you, as one of her best friends I feel the need to thank you for so much more.
Thank you for cherishing her, and recognizing time after time how fortunate you are to have her. I love getting goofy pictures of her shoving food into her mouth captioned “I’m so lucky.” Because you are.
Thank you for challenging her, because we both know she’s easily the most stubborn human alive and its nice to know someone is willing to do so. And she needs it, she needs a person who will walk beside her, not behind her. She needs someone to lean on when things suck and a person to celebrate with when she gets everything in life that she deserves. But in order to be that person you have to be able to challenge her when she doubts herself and help her see all of her wonderful potential... which you do a damn good job of, so thank you.
Thank you for making her feel loved, which is far more meaningful than simply loving her. Don’t get me wrong, I am so thankful for the love you have for her and it brings me so much joy to see that much peace, but I am infinitely grateful that she knows you love her. Regardless of the craziness that life throws at her, it is so wonderful to know that part of her life is never questionable.
I know you don’t need my seal of approval, seeing as you’ve been in her life a lot longer than I have been, but a little recognition never hurt nobody. I am so grateful for the friendship you have offered me and the example that you have set. Very few things bring me more joy than seeing her as happy as you make her, so do us both a favor and come home soon.
