In my short time here on this earth, 23 years and counting to be exact, I have encountered quite a bit. I've broken more bones than I'd care to admit, I switched elementary schools three times before the age of 10, I watched my parents get divorced during my most crucial year of high school, I've had my heart broken more than once and I've broken a few myself. In the midst of all that I have been through, I was always able to rely on my friends to pick me up when I was down. They were my backbone when I needed them most.

It has thankfully been a while since I've had to call upon them for some serious BFF therapy sessions. To be honest it has been some time since any of us have called up one another for anything. Now that were getting older, and this thing called being an adult is taking over, we seem to have less and less free time. Making plans isn't what it used to be. But when you have the right group of friends, none of that matters.

There is something to be said for those kinds of friends. And I'm not saying that the friends you talk to regularly are any less of a friend, because trust me, those, too, are few and far between. But when you can go days, weeks, sometimes even months without talking and then pick up right where the last conversation ended, is it not the best feeling? No harsh feelings, no stubborn jealousy. Nothing at all, but love for one another and the milestones you've reached and all that you have accomplished.

True friends will sit around and talk about what's been going on recently and make sure you're all caught up, but not before asking you how you've been and what you've been up to. They won't do it because it just seems to be standard courtesy. No. They'll ask because they're genuinely interested in how you have been and your successes in this thing called life. After that, you'll laugh and reminisce about how you sat at the lunch table in high school and had a daily muffin competition; whoever bought the double chocolate chip muffin with the most chips won. You'll toast your wine glasses and swear to never let things change; to always be the same friends you were then, you are now, and you will always be forevermore. These are the people you'll tell your children about one day.

A friend for life is hard to come by. If you have more than one of these friends, you're luckier than most. Don't let them go.