Let me tell you about my best friend. Other than the fact that she is drop dead gorgeous, she also has so much character. Her and I met when we were in kindergarten and although our personalities clashed a bit at first, we've been a pair ever since. My best friend is an amazing athlete who lives for the game, she's a dedicated dog watcher and she's definitely the life of the party. She knows how to make me laugh without even trying. My best friend and I don't see each other as much as we used to but it doesn't matter because at this point we are more like sisters than best friends. But through all the happiness that my best friend has seen she has also seen some not so happy times. When we were 16 my best friend lost her dad to cancer.
I remember the day just like it was yesterday. Three years ago I received a call from her that would forever change my life and no doubt hers too. She called me, choking back tears and said "He's gone." It took everything in me not to drop the phone and run up to my room to lock myself in it. At times that day I thought that she was stronger than me. One day she is a regular teenage girl who worries about high school stuff to a teenage girl who just lost her father to cancer. That year I watched my best friend go through hell and back, but despite this horrible thing that happened to her, her personality never changed.
She was still the same person that I remember from when we were in kindergarten. The months following her dad's funeral she took everyday with immense strength and positivity. It made me so proud of her. She stuck to her passion, and got better grades than me. She gets this strength from her father and sometimes I see little bits of him in her which reminds me that even though he's no still here with us physically, his spirit will never die.
It's hard to believe that it has been three years since he's passed but in those three years my best friend has built herself up to be stronger than ever. In the past three years I've watched her grow up (even though she is older than me) and I've watched her take a different outlook on life. She now is a super women and could probably beat up a guy twice her size. I am always so amazed by her strength and I know that there is so much more good things waiting for her in her future.
