Sup, brah?

We’ve known each other for about four years now, so I thought that now was a good time to let you, and everyone else, know how good of a bro you’ve been to me. I don’t think I could tell you enough how much you mean to me and thank you for how much you’ve done for me. So here it goes:

Thank you for making my boarding school experience easygoing from the start.

I don’t think you knew how terrified I was to meet my roommate when I got to the The Academy. I thought I was going to get someone who was the total opposite of me and someone who would hate me. When I saw you sitting at your desk I thought to myself “alright, be cool.” and said “hey.” When your response was to fly back in your chair, almost falling out, and say “OMG you almost scared the POOP outta me! Hey, I’m Bugs!” I knew that it was gonna be a good year.

Thank you for teaching me how to longboard.

For you to lend me your longboard whenever I wanted to use it to practice was already a “whoa” moment for me. But thanks to you, I saved up and got my own longboard so I could board at home and board with you whenever you're around. I even taught my nephews and suitemates how to longboard and they board with me now, and I couldn’t have done that without you teaching me how to board to begin with. So thank you for that, bro.

Thank you for accepting my weirdness and often joining in on it.

One of my biggest fears is having to spend a lot of time with someone who isn’t on my level of “weirdness.” This scares me because if someone thinks I’m just plain bizarre, things get awkward. But you didn’t think I was plain bizarre. If anything, you’re weirder than me - but I love that about you. So thank you for being just plain bizarre and letting me be bizarre with you.

Thank you for hugging me and letting me cry when I needed to.

You know me, I’m an emotional hot mess. But you never got annoyed with my crying and you were always there to give me a hug when I needed it the most, so thank you for that. I’m pretty sure I improved my hugging technique because of you too, so thanks, brah.

Thank you for driving wicked long distances to come visit me.

With you living in Connecticut and me being from Rhode Island, that’s already a drive too far for me (you know Rhode Islanders: Anything farther than 20 minutes is too far). Plus, with my parents not liking me driving long distances, I didn’t think I’d ever get to see you. But the distance never stopped you. I remember one time you drove an hour from New London to come and get me, then we drove an hour to Pettaquamscutt to teach me how to surf. Even when realizing that Pettaquamscutt is 20 minutes away from New London, you still made the drive just so we could hang, and I’m so thankful for that, bro.

Thank you for laughing at my antics.

I honestly just wanted to thank you on this one for having such a good sense of humor when it comes to the crazy ish that I do. We’ve had a lot of good laughs about everything from “Linden” to foot cramps and I’m thankful that I have someone who I can laugh about stuff like that with.

Thank you for overall wreaking havoc with me.

You’re basically my partner in crime, as we always tear stuff up when we’re together, and I couldn’t thank you enough for that. You’re the bro-est of the bros, and I’m glad that you’re my bro.