I'm going to address you directly because there are some times where you are one of the hardest relationships I've ever had to maintain. But you always last. There is one person that I'm still connected to that's over 500 miles away. I can still call that person almost every four letter word, and she call me that in return and still be okay.
Friendship, our faithfulness has been tested in the past. I thought I was going to lose one of the most important connections in my life because of a disagreement. But you held us close, and made sure that almost four years of friendship wouldn't go to waste.
You urged me to write a letter explaining my most raw emotions. My pen left indented marks in my finger and the page was wet with tears. All I wanted to do was rip the five handwritten pages of truth. But that wouldn't have done any good. Your bond is so strong that being open and honest may place a massive crack in a bond forged, but as long as we're willing to put in a little work, super glue and glitter (everything needs glitter), it can be mended. You were the bond I was counting on to keep our relationship on tact, but you did so much more.
You allow us to be so honest. You allow us to have time apart and realize how dumb a fight was, and that it wasn't worth losing a long term bond over. You allowed us to burn and bury the past so that we can move on and be apart of each others lives.
Friendship, you were there for us up in the early hours of the morning when someone needs a cry, spill their guts because a guy or girl that is breaking their heart at 2 a.m. and we talk until 6 a.m. about how that person isn't worth their time.
You've forged binds over Cards Against Humanity with the most racist, obscene and vulgar cards I've ever read aloud in my life. Let alone the idea that dormant people of so many different backgrounds can be brought together without sick minds.
We thank you for sticking around even when things get weird, or being there when we need to talk on the phone with someone while walking home at 11 at night. Letting us vent in the most bitchy way possible, and having friends knock us on our butts when we have defintely crossed the line.
Friendship, here's to you:Allowing friends to be honest to a fault, reopen old wounds and pour salt in them to make us tell each other how we feel. Here's to long and fruitful friendships. To the broken relationships that have been mended over cups of coffee or Facebook chat.
