Reminiscing on all of my memories, there you are right next to me during them all. Some days I believe you're more of a sister, more like a counselor and secretly the third person in my relationship.
Friends come and go, most friends go through phases where you're closer than ever and then slowly drift apart. Whether it be a summer break at home reconnecting then falling apart with a close old friend, a high school best friend depending on the sport or club season that is going on, or a falling out that changes a friendship's dynamic. However there is always the friend, despite all of the circumstances, that is by your side all of the time, no matter what.
As I look back I was, too, one of the girls that drifted from "best friend" to "best friend" but none of those friendships could overlook my forever best friend. With you, there is never any worries about the friendship being one-sided. I never worry about you talking behind my back or giving away my secret. Since middle school, you've been there and never once left my side, for that I am forever thankful.
Throughout high school, we became inseparable. Never going a day without seeing or talking to each other and constantly knowing what was going on each other's lives. That all changed the day you moved an hour and a half away. We went from talking daily to hopefully a couple times a week if our schedules lined up correctly.
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation; doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
For some friendships, the distance and busy schedules would have been a breaking point, but not for us. You have been the one who never left my side when things got hard. Through every heartbreak, every fight with a sibling or parent, every time we wanted to drop out of school, we never left each other's side, and for that, I am forever thankful. I cannot thank you enough for being there for all of my highest points, wiping every tear, talking me into taking chances (and talking me out of the bad ones), you were brutally honest when I needed it and were there to tell me everything was going to be okay when I didn't listen to you. You have always helped give me the strength that I needed when I couldn't find it within myself.
Every day I miss you and miss living down the street and going to the same school. I will forever cherish all of the memories that we have made together. I will never be able to thank you enough for all that you have ever done and for being the best, best friend that I could ever ask for.
I love you, BFF