Hey you,
I feel like I don't say this nearly enough, so thank you for being there for me. Thank you for driving countless hours to visit me on the weekend. Thank you for coming down whenever you can and thank you for dealing with me when I get incredibly homesick.
Going off to college for the first time is hard. It is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. My world was completely rocked and flipped 180 degrees. I moved out of my home and was told to live on my own for the first time. I had to learn what it was like to share a bathroom with 20 other girls, and what it was like to share a small space with another person who might not be like me. I had to learn how to manage my time, and I had forced myself not to procrastinate.
You have been there for every meltdown. Every time I felt like I could not handle any more stress or anything else thrown at me, you were there to pick me up and say that I could. Thank you for that. Thank you for always being the first person to believe in me.
I know that it is not easy on either one of us, and I know that this is not what you asked for, but thank you for staying.
You bring such an incredible light to my life. I remember one weekend after I had been away at school for maybe two months, we were both struggling with being away from each other. You told me that you were in a really dark place because you missed me so much. You were not sleeping, you felt stressed constantly; everything was going wrong. That weekend, I asked you to do something for me. I asked you to let me be the light that got you out of that dark place. And you did. You let me show you what was good about our situation. We still had each other. We still have each other.
Do you remember the breakdown that I had before I left? I was regretting my decision to go seven hours away from home to school. I could not bear the thought of being away from home and away from my heart at the same time. I gave you every single reason why long distance relationships never work out and why they are impossible. You gave me every reason why ours would.
You give me every reason to remember that nothing is impossible, and I hold those words very close to my heart.
Robert Fulghum once said that “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness–and call it love–true love.”
Thank you for showing me your weirdness and thank you for embracing mine.
Most importantly, thank you for being my guiding light through the darkness.
