To my Best Friend back home,

aka my BFFL (Best friend for Life).

You are my backbone. We have literally been through it all. From middle school- the awkward punk rock phase, ugly thinned out brows and skipping class to take the bus to the mall with our entire friend group and then getting kicked out of the mall. Doing varsity cheer together in high school, trying to start a YouTube channel (haha) teaching Sunday school with a bunch of little kids and even working together at Forever 21.

It’s funny how clueless we were to all the things it meant to actually be best friends. Little did we know that we were going to be there for the almost break ups, the actual break up, the growing apart that brought us closer, the personal hardships, the broken hearts that shook our world…

I think we have had our fair share of moments that felt like the end of life as we knew it, and it’s crazy how we’ve made it and how much closer we have gotten since. We just get each other and we are so alike and still, so different. I cannot say anything at all and you’d still know what was up. You always know the right things to say, no matter what I’m going through. Never would I have thought that I’d have someone who would know me better than myself. You are my rock and the one person who knows every little weird thing and detail about me, yet still loves me unconditionally and sees the best version of me. For that, I am forever thankful.

For 5 years of our life before college, we were tied to the hip. I wish I could see you in person to tell you all of these things rather than telling you behind a phone or computer screen. That’s why I always look forward to breaks and spending all those days together because being away from your best friend who’s basically your sister is honestly difficult. I remember during my early years in college, all I could think about was how much I desperately wished you were there to go through this chapter of my life with me. Now, I’m a senior and graduating and can’t wait to reunite again and experience yet another new beginning as real adults and future roommates!

We may have carelessly given each other the title of being best friends, but who would’ve thought that we’d go through hell and back to actually earn it. There’s no one else I would have wanted to be there for everything. They say that the world is a cruel and terrible place to not have a best friend, thank God we have nothing to worry about!

Here’s to a decade of friendship and a lifetime to go.

XOXO,

Your BFFL