How many of you remember the first time that you met your best friend? Now think back to first grade, can you remember how you met your first grade best friend? Me either. But lucky for me, that stubborn and amazing girl is still annoying me to this very day.
It's been 15 years, and yet I still feel as happy and content with her as I did way back then. Is this what couples in happy marriages feel like? Like they can never live without them, their craziness, their humor, their movie or dinner dates, or expressing their mutual love for Taylor Swift? If so, who needs marriage when I got you.
I don't know if you realize this, but most people don't stay close to all their friends in high school, let alone from elementary school. People move away, go to college, get jobs, get new friends, and overall just get busy.
Life is extremely stressful and unpredictable, and college life is even more so. I don't know how, I don't know why, but there is a reason for why we are still in each other's lives. In all honesty, I don't care what the reason is because I am just too happy that we are still best friends. You know me, I know you, and it is too late to turn back now. We snap chat each other all day, we gush over Taylor Swift (her life, her man, her talent, etc.), and we have a mutual love of your mom. Who by the way, I still think loves me more.
I remember seeing your beautiful dog in your truck when your mom dropped you off at school, I think back to band class with Sosa and our math class with Cory and all the laughs we did do and all the work we didn't want to do. But most of all I remember how you always made me feel. Mainly because you have always made me feel the same way, loved and happy. It doesn't matter if I am babbling incoherently, terrified because of a stupid shark movie, or dancing around to the music from Maleficent.
Even when I was acting weird, I had the pleasure of acting weird with you. I'm sure you know how rare it is to find people like that. People who are always there for you, who stick by you through thick and thin, and who never let you fade into the background or become that friend that you used to know. You're apart of that rare population, and it is so amazing that you're still here, with me.
So to sum everything up, I am probably the luckiest girl in the world, partially because I have you. Since 2002 I have had you in my life and I do not intend on ever letting you out of it now. You can light up a room just by walking in, you make everyone you meet feel loved and important, and you never give up.
Even when it's leg day. I don't know what I did to deserve a friend like you. I don't hate to say this, but for better or worse, in sickness or in health, you have to stick by me. Until death do us part. Here's to the next 70 or so years together! I'll see you at the retirement home!
