They say that while you’re in college you should never move in with your high school best friend. They say it ruins your friendship. I’ve learned not to believe what they say…because I think it’s just made us even closer.

Thank you for being there all throughout my high school days. Thanks for sharing life stories about boys, life, gossip, and everything far and in between. Thank you for helping make my high school experience. Thank you for continuing to be my very best friend in college. Thank you for staying constant in a world full of change and for being the friend I’ve felt like I’ve had my whole life.

(High school gym class probably listening to Lil Wayne and taking pictures on my iPod LOL)

Thank you for laying in my bed and telling me about your day (or exciting stories about the weekend) and for always having something too exciting or hilarious happening in your life that needs to be shared with me. Thank you for being that friend I know I can always count on. Thank you for making me laugh and for making me cry both at times when I need it the most. Thank you for being the sister I’ve never had but always wanted and for fighting with me like a sister. As much as the small arguments between us suck (even though they’re very rare), they only bring us closer together and make me realize just how much I cherish our friendship.

Thank you for telling me the truth even when you know it’ll hurt my feelings and for being there when it does hurts my feelings. Thank you for being so patient with me when I’m upset over dumb things and for always knowing what to say to make it better. Thanks for sitting with me when I “ugly cry”, you know the kind where my voice catches in my throat, nose red and runny, and I can barely make words out. Thanks for always wanting to have exciting, spontaneous fun, and forcing my old soul to do all that with you. Thanks for all the Dunkin Doughnut, Friday morning, runs after crazy Thursday night and always be the friend to drag me out on Tuesday nights. Thank you for understanding sometimes I want to go out and sometimes I don't.

Thank you for never telling me to “just get over it”—whatever it is—because you know me, and not I have to talk everything out. You will never know how much it means to me that you’re always there.

Thank you for being you and for letting me be myself. Thank you for always being the person I want to confide in. Thank you for always knowing how to pick me up from a day when life just gets to be too much. Thank you for being my roommate all four years of college. I seriously don’t know how I would have made it without you. I feel like living with you has been my own little home away from home. No matter how bad or good my day is I get to come home to the best roommate, my best friend, and everything is just okay in this chaotic world. Also, thank you the most for praying with me and for talking about Jesus with me and never judging me.

Many people may say they have the “best friend” but how can that be true when they don’t have you? I may not be sure where life is going to takes us after graduation. I may not be sure how many miles away we may be (don’t like thinking about not living with you, though), or how many days we may go without talking in the future, but something I will always be sure of is that we will always be friends. I will always be thankful for this friendship. Thank you for being the person I know I can count as my forever friend, and for giving me all of these reasons and more to be thankful for, I love that you’re my best friend.