Dear other half,
How are you today? I know it’s a stupid thing to ask because we’ve already Snapchatted each other three times (did you like my selfie with the dog filter?) and I plan to Facetime you later tonight. Right now you’re probably sitting on the twin bed in your dorm room at the state school you go to studying for some chemistry test that you’re freaking out about (you’ll do great, babe). As I look at the framed picture I have of the two of us that is sitting next to my Keurig, I always think back to the day you moved away. I will never forget when my car (technically it was my mom’s car because I didn’t have my license yet) rolled up your long driveway and I saw the moving truck parked next to your trampoline. I remember the last hug we had at your house and how I never wanted you to let go. I remember you telling me that moving to another state was best for your family because of your mom and step-dad’s jobs and how your sister was already accepted to a college out there (Go Aggies, by the way). I didn’t understand it then, but you moving over 1,000 miles away strengthened our friendship even more.
When I first met you in elementary school I didn’t realize how important you were going to be to me. I didn’t realize that in a couple of years you were going to refer to my mom and dad as your ‘second mom and dad’ or that your home would become my ‘home-away-from -home’. It’s funny how life throws us unexpected blessings when we least expect it.
Yes, it kills me that we don’t see each other for 11 months out of the year but being apart has made us grow as individuals. Growth and change are going to happen in any type of relationship, especially long distance ones. So it’s perfectly normal that if the next time we see each other, something is different. The saying “absence makes the heart grow stronger” could not be truer. You not being a mile down the road has made me appreciate our friendship even more. The fact that you live five
Yes, we will both make new life-long friends as we are at college but nothing will compare to our deep-rooted relationship. When I look through old pictures or even at that gold wristlet you gave to me last year for a graduation present I automatically think of you and the biggest smile grows on my face. Whenever I tell someone (I refer to your as my soulmate) about you, they can easily realize how strong our bond really is and how I’m struggling when you aren’t here.
So it’s perfectly fine that we don’t talk face-to-face every day or that we don’t see each other on major holidays or birthdays; all that matters is that we don’t lose sight of our friendship. You are the most influential, beautiful and inspiring person in my life. I never want to live a moment when you’re not somehow in it. Thank you for always supporting me, bringing me up when I’m down and believing in me.
I love you more than I love cookie dough ice cream and The Hunger Games combined,
Becky/B-money
