To my best friend from home,

By now, we’re well into our college careers and starting to figure out just what we want to do with our lives. You, being a constant source of happiness, have made the changes much more manageable. Thank you for still communicating with me even though we both have crazy schedules. I miss the days we got to see each other every single day in high school; I never realized how much I took those moments for granted. We’ve now gone away to college, you stayed local and I moved two hours away into the corn, and we have both made new school friends and had new experiences without each other. That used to make me so anxious and nervous because I never wanted to lose you. But over the past few years, I’ve realized that nothing has changed and we are still as close as we were in 8^th grade.

I look forward to when I come home for the weekend or when you come to visit me at school and we binge watch "Bates Motel" until we’re too tired to even keep our eyes open. I love showing each other around each other’s schools and sharing the new, important places that have become such a huge part of our lives. Also, whenever we hang out, I really look forward to going food shopping and getting nothing of nutritional value and then promptly stuffing our faces once we get back home.

But I’m not gonna lie, not seeing you five to six days a week has been so hard.

I miss hanging out all the time and laughing until our sides hurt.

I miss only being a 5-minute drive away from each other. I miss going shopping and spending all day at the mall even though we both knew we shouldn’t spend more money. I also really miss having someone to laugh at all my stupid jokes because apparently, I’m not as funny as I thought I was.

I’m so very proud to call you my best friend and I am so proud of the person you’ve become since we’ve gone away to different schools. I couldn’t have picked a more gorgeous, intelligent, hilarious, selfless, amazing best friend if I tried. You truly are one of my most favorite people on the planet and I’m beyond lucky to have you be a part of my life.

Basically, I’m so lucky to have someone in my life who loves me no matter what and is willing to work with the distance between us. Luckily though, we’re only a phone call, Skype sesh, ridiculous meme, or cringe-worthy Facebook post away from each other. I don’t think you were planning on it but you’ll never be able to get rid of me, so we’re stuck with each other until we’re old and rolling around in wheelchairs. I love you, best friend. The distance is nothing when it comes to our friendship, and I really don’t know what I’d ever do without you.