Recently my god sister got married. This was the speech I wrote for her wedding.
Enjoy...
Hello Everyone,
For those of you who don't know me, I’m Sabrina and I’m Sarah’s little one. No I don't mean Little one as i'm her child. literally she calls me LITTLE ONE. Although, it makes sense. I am the shorter, younger, and skinnier asian carbon copy of Sarah. How one might ask? Well, We both have the same birthdays, 22nd of October, we both are complete shopaholics, andwe both lack the skills of common sense, especially when it comes to following directions. See pretty much the SAME THING!!! Right? Sarah is pretty much my older sister from another mother. But how in the world did we meet?
You see, I met Sarah when she was 19 and I was 10 years old. At the time she was working at my mothers office as a peion intern. I remember sittng in my moms office and watching Sarah with her little mail cart from time to time walking around the hallway. Honestly, I barley knew her when i first met her. However, that was about to change.
One day, my family friend, Esther Lee,was supposed to show up at my apartment for a dinner party. Esther being herself, was 30 minutes late. When she finally showed up, she ended up bringing an unexpected guest. This guest ended up being Sarah. Both my mother and I had no clue why she was at the dinner party. But hey she brought wine and that all my mother cared about! So she stayed. And Stayed she did.
It turns out that the same week of my dinner party, Sarah broke up with then boyfriend. She packed up her things, deleted all the old facebook photos , and moved out of the apartment they shared. Well sort off, She had no place to go. So she ended up on Esther couch for that week. However, Esther wanted her own couch back and she knew I had a bunk bed. So Esther ought to be a great idea to convince my mother to let her crash at my place until she got back up on my feet. Long story short, after a couple of hours of dinner and wine, my mother felt guilty enough to let Sarah move in. Of course I got the short end of the bargain. I HAD TO SHARE A ROOM WITH HER FOR TWO WEEKS!!!!!!!!!! Do you even know what that is like? I can't really describe it anyway but this “ One night I went to bed on my bottom bunk and I woke up to a bunch of Victoria's Secret bras dangling my top bunk. I was only 10 at the time”.
All jokes aside, that is how I meet her. And from there, the rest is history (and alot of airline miles)
Looking back upon this moment in lieu of this speical occsasion, three thing came to my mind.
- Wow im old.
- Will she fit into her wedding dress???
- Is this really happening?
Okay, #2 is self explanatory for those who know sarah very well, so i'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about this. But the other two are very siginficant to today speech.
First off, like i said I met Sarah when I was 10. I am now 19. That was the same age Sarah was when she met me. I spent a ton of time thinking about this reality, this is what i got....
At the age of 19, Sarah had a great internship at my mother’s office. I’m 19 and currently unemployed. At the age of 19, Sarah lived on her own in one of the greatest cities on earth. I’m 19 and I still live in my mother's apartment.At the age of 19, Sarah had some sort of cash flow from work. I’m 19 and im still broke! Finally, At the age of 19 Sarah ate a lot of chipotle. I’m 19 and I still eat a lot of chipotle!!! Pause
Well I’m glad to see that somethings have not changed.
The reason why i mention this is because it brings me up to #3. Is this really happening?
I’m not going to lie, Sarah getting married for me is lost of innocence. All the memories made are getting replaced with real adulthood problems. She's about to go off to her own adventure that im not going to be in most of it.
At first I was really upset about this as anyone would be. It felt like all those times we spent together were about to get sealed up in a Tin Can and to be left on on a shelf forever. But then I realized something. TIN CANS CANT EXPIRE!!!!! Meaning those memories will always be there. Even better TIN CANS CAN BE OPEN!!! As we all know Tin cans can be very hard to open when you dont have a can opener. But you know what? If Sarah was that strong and brave at the age of 19 to seek out the great at that time. She can open that Tin Can if needed. And when she does I’ll be there. But for now. If the only thing she wants is to go off to seek the next great and put everything else in a tin can for storage . I’ll be okay. Because at the end of the day I just want her to be happy, because she she always makes me happy.
Sarah, I might be your little one and i know you will forget about me (dont cry you forget everything form your keys to wallet), but you’ll always be my big one and i'll always remember..
Congrats and I wish you the best of luck.
Always,
The little one...
