Well, it has certainly been a while. A while since we hung out, or talked every day, or were best friends. The thing about friendships is that sometimes there doesn’t have to be a big fight, you don’t always have to end on bad terms. Some friendships more or less just end for one reason or another. People go separate ways, and sometimes that makes it hard to stay friends. But at the same time that doesn’t mean that you just stop being friends. Maybe you stop being best friends who do everything together, but you don’t just shut off a long term friendship in an instant. You don’t stop caring about people who never did anything wrong.

I’ve always liked to call you my “long lost best friend” because that’s really what you feel like. It feels like at basically any time we could resume our friendship and everything would be exactly the same. We really never stopped being friends. Our lives are so different now but that doesn’t mean we’re any different as people. And I always root for you, even if we aren’t best friends anymore.

I feel like a lot of us have this kind of friend, whether we really know that we have them or not. A friendship that kind of ended, but at the same time kind of didn’t really end. In a way there was no real closure. There was no big fight. There wasn’t even a conversation addressing, “hey, we’re kinda not best friends anymore, have you noticed too?” It just kind of ended like it started; doing things together less and less until we started calling other people our best friends. It was never really anyone’s fault. Sometimes I really wonder what it would be like if we were still best friends. Would everything be different, or would things be more or less the same in our lives? It’s hard to imagine still being best friends with someone that you haven’t been best friends with for so long. That makes it even harder to imagine my life like that. Would you be more like me or would I be more like you? Maybe we’d be like neither of us. Maybe we’d be different people entirely. At this point there is really no way of telling what would have happened to us.

So here’s to you, my long lost best friend. Thank you for all the years of irreplaceable friendship. Thank you for being the person I called my best friend for so long. Remember that I’m still always there for you, even if we rarely talk anymore. And that I’m still always supporting you and being your number one fan; because that’s what best friends do, even if you aren’t really best friends anymore.