Listen, I hate the saying "Best Friend," because I think it's silly to put one friend before my other friends that are just as great. I admit that I do have more than one best friend, and I'm so so lucky to say that. However, I want to take the time to thank a friend that has stuck by me since third grade, just because she's on my mind at this very moment.
Throughout our multiple phone calls and texting conversations every day, I rarely thank you for all that you do/continue to do for me. It's hard for me to remember to thank you when I'm too busy hysterically laughing at our texting conversations. I didn't even know it was possible to make someone laugh via text message as much as you make me laugh but boy do you continuously prove me wrong. Here is my best attempt to formally thank you, although it'll barely scratch the surface of how truly grateful I am:
Thank you for befriending me in elementary school by standing up for me when I got yelled at by our teacher. That's a moment that I will always cherish simply because it brought me you. I don't know how you managed to stay friends with me during our moody and awkward middle school days (and haircuts .. I had bangs until 7th grade.) Thank you for continuing to be my friend throughout freshmen and sophomore year of high school, when cliques were forming and friend groups seemed to change like the weather. Additionally, thank you for not giving up on me junior year during a time when nobody understood my thoughts or actions - not even myself. Last but certainly not least, thank you for letting me cry on your shoulder for the entirety of last summer when my mother had her surgery.
Those are just the big milestones, though. I can't forget about two New Years Days ago when we were so upset with our New Years Eves that we sat in the same room for a full day without saying a word, just so that we weren't alone. Or the times that we've turned one texting typo into jokes that should've been killed right when they were created. Or when you wrote me individual letters to open during my first summer at college based on if I was feeling sad, happy, excited, you name it. Or how you always managed to stay true to your goofy, smart, beautiful self from third grade until now. I could go on for hours.
Somehow, you've to managed fit a sense of caring that's big enough for 20 people into your one little body. And somehow, I have been lucky enough to have you with me throughout my life thus far. Whenever we discuss our futures and our children being best friends and us going on double dates with our future husbands, it makes me delighted to know that I'll always have someone like you by my side.
