Dear Soulmate,

No, I am not talking about my boyfriend (do love you, though). This one is for my best friend.

As I write this, we are getting ready: listening to your favorite Pandora station, and you keep dancing around the room carelessly. I remember all the times we have done this exact same ritual. You were my first roommate at Eastern, even though we both didn't think it was going to work out. Now, we finish each others sentences, eat the same thing at every restaurant, and love to hate the same things.

You're the ecstatic, extroverted, always-down-for-a-good-time personality, while I can sometimes be reserved and introverted. When we first met I had just gotten out of a bad relationship and really needed someone to fall back on, and you turned into that person, and I don't think you knew it at the time. You have always been there for my lowest points in life, and loved me during my highest. You know all the boys that have broken my heart that other people don't even know existed. You know what to do when I'm having a bad day, and you know what I like do to during the "best days." You have changed my life more than you ever thought was possible.

My funniest college memories were with you. Remember that one time when we had the same Bio Lab and didn't even know it until we walked to class together one day because we sat on complete opposite sides of the room? Or when we would get sick of campus and spend every single weekend in Lexington, and the best was when it snowed us in and it was up to our knees and we acted like it was the end of the world.

As we keep going through in this college experience we are sharing together, we are both changing. We are both more independent now that we aren't in that cracker box of a dorm room, even though I do miss that. I miss opening the door, accidentally smashing it into your closet door, and seeing you sitting there on your bed. But now, I either come to your place or you come to mine. Either works just as well (and usually my room is more clean anyway).

I really hope that I could have the same effect on your life as you have had on mine. I hope that I have made you smile just as much as you've made me smile. I hope that I have cheered you up at least a few times, even though you'd never let me know if I had. I hope that you'll always think of me the way I think of you: my very best friend. If a day ever comes that we aren't together, I really hope we get our shit together and find each other again.