When you imagine growing up with your best friend, little kids do not really think about moving away and learning how to live without their best friend by their side. Still, this doesn't mean you have to stop being their best friend, they now just become your long-distance best friend. Having a best friend is hard, having a best friend that lives hundreds of miles away is even harder. None-the-less, I wouldn't change my long-distance best friend for the world.

1. The initial shock of knowing your best friend is moving away.

2. The feeling you get when you say goodbye to your friend and know you won't see them for a long time.

3. You love and hate seeing your long-distance best friend get new friends.

4. And when that happens, you make it your mission to learn everything about said "new friends."

5. Planning to see each other is quite possibly the hardest thing to do.

6. You find yourself convincing your parents that every Christmas and birthday present should be a plane ticket.

7. Even if you can just squeeze in a day or two, you take the trip.

8. You find yourself saying "We're actually together!" multiple times throughout the day.

9. You two end up doing all of the things you loved together before you were long-distance best friends (which mostly consists of just eating all of your favorite foods).

10. You usually end up spending the whole time gossiping about all of the people you mutually know.

11. When you leave them, you go through the five stages of grief (every time, trust me it does not get easier).

12. You know exactly how many miles are in-between you two.

13. Sometimes you just stalk them on Facebook so you can live vicariously through their life.

14. You hate the people they hate (even if you've never met them before).

15. Your main source of communication is texting, snapchat, or both at the same time.

16. You can't imagine a life without them (even if it is from 582.6 miles away).