Dear hometown friends,
I know we go to different colleges and live miles apart from each other, but I want you to know not a day goes by when I don't think about you. I wonder if you are having a good day, how hard your classes are or how the math test you are taking is going. I think about how you're probably arguing with your roommates over who actually does the chores around the house and I laugh thinking about how you will most likely just agree with them to keep from having confrontation. I think about how you probably just got mad at your roommate for drinking the last of the chocolate milk and I imagine you being prepared to say something but not actually doing it because your heart is too kind. I think about how different it would be if we had went to the same school and I was the roommate you were having pointless arguments with.
Going into college, I was so excited to meet new people from all over the country and form great relationships. And while I am so thankful for the amazing friends I have here and the happiness they have brought me, it's just not the same as the friendship we have. There's something so special about friends that have watched you grow up and who have shaped you into the person you are today. You were there from the beginning when I was uncut and unpolished, and you loved me every step of the way. You have seen me at my absolute lowest points and have held me while I wept. You have comforted me when I thought I had no where else to turn. But you were also there for the highest points. You celebrated every milestone, every laugh, and every journey with me. When something major happened like getting into college, having my first love, or winning the championship game, you were there celebrating right beside me.
I would not be the person I am today if it weren't for you. Every part of me is a little bit of you. You have impacted me in so many ways it's impossible to list them all here. I know we don't see each other everyday like we used to in yearbook class or the parking lot after school, but trust me when I say that you are forever in my heart.
I can't wait for the day when I watch you marry the love your life, have your first child and get your first teaching job. I can't wait to experience so many more milestones together and for us to grow old together. I thank God every day for the friends he has put in my life. He put together something special when He planned our lives and our friendship. I thank Him for the strong, confident, beautiful women that He gave me to be my best friends. I feel so incredibly lucky to have humble, grounded, down-to-earth people like you to lean on who would be there for me at the drop of a hat (even if it's just because I had a bad day). People like you are hard to come by and I can't believe I found it in a small town in central Kentucky.
You guys are my literal rock and I couldn't imagine a life without you two.
Love always,
Your Best Friend
