Dear friend,
Like many of my fellow romantics, I believe in the concept of soul mates, the belief that there is that one person that is you're meant to be, your one and only. However, as I have become older (and only slightly wiser), my belief in this concept has changed. I don't believe that a soul mate is just simply your romantic partner, but your partner in all aspects of life -- a soul mate enemy, a soul mate love, and what I like to call you, a soul mate friend.
I have this honest belief that you, my friend, were meant to be in my life. From the moment we met, I could feel that we were supposed to be friends. We were meant to be each other's person, the Meredith to my Christina, the Blair to my Serena. We went through the same trials of life together, we coped with them the same way. The times spent just talking about our favorite bands, goofing off when we were supposed to be paying attention during Bible studies, never taking anything too seriously. The midnight drives to McDonald's for chicken nuggets while blasting pop-punk at maximum volume were what I needed when life got to be too much.
As silly as were when we hung out, that is how serious we were when life itself got serious. Through heartbreaks and the stress of high school, to family tragedies and a tragedy of our own, we stuck with each other through it all, grieving and recovering together, in the same ways we felt fit. We have been through it all, and I truly believe that we each needed the other to get through it all -- we each were meant to play that role in each others lives.
Another part of the soul mate belief that I also very much believe in is the one where we sometimes don't always end up with our soul mates. As we grew older and went on different paths, I could feel our friendship becoming distant. Not in the "we aren't friends anymore" way, but in the" we just grew up and have become different people" way. We're still aware of how important we were to each other at one point in life and we're still important to the other. Sometimes life just takes us in different directions, but that doesn't make us not matter to the other.
My dear soul mate friend, even though we may be in separate points of our lives, you are still so important to me. You hold a place in my heart that won't ever go away. When you go through all that we have gone through, you don't forget that. We may be older, but we'll always be connected. And if you ever need a hand or just want to catch up on the good old times, I am just a simple phone call away.
"Here's to the fast times; the times we felt alive; to all the nights where we forgot to get back home."
Sincerely,
Your own soul mate friend
