You have your acquaintances. You have your friends. Then you have your best friend. Lastly you have “your person.” However, there is someone who goes beyond “your person.” It’s the friend who you don’t even consider a friend anymore, because you now just consider her your sister. She surpasses all the qualifications that make her a best friend. Your best friend is the person you spend everyday with and talk to 24/7. “Your person” is the girl who just gets you and you’ll hangout with a bit but the overwhelming obsession with each other has faded. The friend who is your sister is something more than all that.

You’ve known her for such a long time that she might as well be part of your family. You may not even remember the moment you first met because you both were so young. If you do remember, you know from that very moment a great friendship formed. Over the years the friendship grew stronger and stronger making you two at “best friend” level. Y’all spend the childhood era playing dress up for hours at a time. As you both get older, y’all spend the night at each other’s houses every weekend.

You reach middle school aka the awkward stage of your life. Your nose is too big for your face and you're trying to rock the brace-face. Yet, you don’t panic about these things because you have your best friend going through the same thing right by your side. Y’all breeze through middle school together and then y’all enter the high school days. These are the days where y’all transform from best friends to being each other’s person. Y’all branch out from each other to meet new people and make new friends because y’all realize you can’t survive high school only having each other. One of you gets a boyfriend and spends their Saturday nights chilling with him while you are out at a movie with friends. Y’all make up for it though on Sunday afternoon with dates to Starbucks to catch up on the weekly events. Even though y’all aren’t as close, you still take her on every vacation because she knows your family so well your parents practically consider her a daughter too.

Then there’s the major fight that happens. Something goes down between the two of you to where y’all may not speak for a couple months and passing each other in the halls at school is painfully awkward. A couple months later, y’all have the awkward run in with each other where y’all are forced to have a conversation. Y’all talk things out and eventually forgive each other. You both admit y’all have been miserable without each other for so many months. Y’all bounce back as if no beat was skipped. This is when you realize that she is no longer your person but now your sister. The friendship is stronger than ever because y’all now know nothing can keep y’all apart.

That’s until college comes around. Unfortunately y’all both decide to not go the same college so y’all spend the next couple months trying to cram in every random adventure before y’all are forced to part ways. You both cry your eyes out as she packs up to move off to her new life. You can’t imagine what these next four years are going to be like not being able to go over to her house whenever a crisis strikes. Y’all stay in touch with frequent phone conversations as she tells you about her new life. You're jealous of all the people that get to see her face everyday but that moment y’all see each other over the first break, it's a remarkable moment because you are finally reunited with your sister.

So here’s to you my friend. Thank you for showing me that there is a girl out there who I know will be there for me no matter what. A girl I can share my entire life with and knows every secret and crazy event that has ever happened to me. For I am truly blessed I can do the all the same things for you. It's all the laughs, the cries, the smiles, and the memories that made you into the person you are to me today, my sister.