The greatest gift in life is friendship. Friends are the reason you are sane and alive. Friends keep the balance of school, work, and home; they just help things get. Most the time they do not have to do much but to sit and listen. When you hit your twenties now is the time to find your forever best friend, in my case, your forever best friends. Its a tough journey filled with tears and broken promises. It the trying time in life where you figure out who really are, and who you truly mesh with. Friends are more than just partners in life, when boyfriend/girlfriends and family gets too much, they are the hand that helps guide you to a better tomorrow.

Its been in the past few years I found the friends that I know call my forever friends. They know how I am. How my depression gets to me, my stress smothers me, and my entire naivety towards anything domestic related (sorry, future hubby. I am in repair to be wife material,) Its what makes me not totally hate life too much. When life is so hard I know that I can always run to my best friends. They may not always like what I tell them, but they are there. Forever and until I die from trying to be a domesticated women (you guys should know that my death will be in a house fire from trying to fry chicken, while being the perfect southern woman.)

For anyone who may read this and think, "I have friends, but they are distant." Do not worry. It took me years to find friends that can tolerate me. If you are wondering what makes a perfect best friend, well, there is no such thing as perfect. The ones who mesh with you are always pretty close though.

My personal feelings on what aspects should be in a friendship are these:

They will always have your back. All of my close friends are people who I can truly depend on being there. If we have plans, most the time we are partying with netflix and homade pizza rolls till my butt is falling asleep. They will always make sure that everyone is laughing, and we make sure no bitch can hurt anyone. We listen to the problems that the other has. no matter how stupid it is. If its stupid, we straight up tell them Its stupid. They are always a phone call away that can span from the actual problem, to a whole new conversation. They are your backbone.

They take care of you. Most of my close friends are older than me, thus means they help me learn about life. If you have a friend that will get off of work and cook you homemade chicken pot pie from scratch, then that is how you know you found a forever friend. If you have a friend you can call up about a problem and pour your soul to, you know you have a forever friend. If you have friends that want so much for you, that when you feel like you cannot reach it, they will bust your ass till you know you can. That is a truly amazing friend.

And last for me:

They will be stupid and laugh with you. The pokemon catching, netflix watching, and roadtrip night and days are always filled with laughter. Its always filled with gossip about what happened with who. You can say things that are completely ridiculous and know they will mock you senseless. If there is no sarcasm, bitchy remarks, or personal inside jokes, you do not know friendship. Thats where the real fun is at. That is how you know who is the real friends, and who never was.