Dear _______,
I’ve been staring at this blank document for a few hours now trying to figure out how to put into words how much I love you, how much you mean to me, and how much I value our friendship.
When we first started hanging out in 7th grade, I never expected that we would still be friends in our sophomore year of college - best friends, in fact. We automatically clicked in 7th grade band, then started being the best of friends our 8th grade year. Over these nine incredible years, our friendship has seen so many inside jokes, tears, laughter, the rise and fall of relationships and other friendships (ahem, those who shall not be named), and many distances between two of us. Through it all, we’ve stuck together and never let anything or anyone bring us down. These nine years have gone by so fast.
We have the kind of friendship where we can go months without talking, and when we’re together again, we can pick up right where we left off. That is one of the best kind of friendships to me. Some people have the friends they go to for advice, friends for a kick-ass time, and friends for emotional breakdowns. You are all of those friends wrapped into one for me. I love you ____, and I am blessed that I can go to you for anything and everything. There are no boundaries in our relationship.
Together we are so carefree and completely unashamed of who we are, and I love that about our friendship. From jamming out to Katy Perry “Fireworks” on the band bus, and the many hours of nerding out in the arcade just to get two of each thing we wanted just so we could match, to our many trips to the town over for movies or the countless of sleepovers (the first time I came over your dad told me to call him stud muffin lol). You’re a part of my family as much as I am a part of yours. Knowing I have you as a friend gives me freedom to be myself. I'm not scared to do things I would normally be afraid to do, because I know that you will be right there next to me the whole time (like on the Simpson ride at universal studios the first time we rode it, and we both screamed our heads off, and the mummy ride “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil”).
No matter how far apart the two of us are, I know that nothing can affect our friendship. I promise I will always be there to text you and let you know the gossip from here where I am at. I will be here for when you need a crying shoulder, even though it’s over the phone. I promise that you will be in my wedding. I promise my kids will know you as well as I do, and I expect the exact same from you too, missy. I can picture us now, old and senile, living in a retirement home together causing so much chaos driving around in motorized scooters, gossiping, and still laughing at our inside jokes while threatening to throw our husbands in the water or tripping them. I can't wait to see what the future holds. I love you more than you could ever know.
Your partner in crime and best friend forever and ever,
Madeline AKA Madikins
