When you join Greek Life everyone tells you,

"No matter the letters, we are all Greek together."

You never really think about what that means. I always assumed it was just a way to say that Greek life is a huge family with individual families within. You had to respect each other and work together, sometimes, but I never truly understood how much it meant until my best friend joined a sorority other than mine.

I swore to everyone she was going to come out for my sorority. She would have fit in wonderfully, and a ton of my sisters already knew and loved her. So, I was counting the days until she would run to me on bid day and I would soon enough get to call her my sister. To my surprise, she had found her home somewhere else and, to be completely honest, it broke my heart.

I had friends in other sororities at my school and at others schools and that had never affected our friendship, but this was my best friend. She was supposed to choose me over everyone else, I wanted this more then anything. I was so scared I would lose her to her new sisters and all of a sudden I would just be that girl she says hi to when we are at Greek events. I slowly began to accept the fact that slowly, I would lose her. But then I didn't.

She began her new member process and loved every second of it. She made new friends and started to really find her place, but she never left me. She would still come over when we both got home from chapter meetings. She would still call me when she was stressed out. She would still go out with me on the weekends or stay in with me. She was still there in all the ways she always had been before.

It was sometimes weird seeing different letters on her chest or competing with her during Greek Week, but it never changed our friendship. We would drive to homecoming together or go to dinner after meetings. She still remained close with many of my sisters, and I found great friends with hers. We made ourselves matching letters and spent so many nights on my bedroom floor crafting for our littles and bigs and twins and whoever else. And when bid day and all the other big days came along, we took tons of pictures, threw what we knew together and ran to hug each other in our own excitement.

She remained my best friend no matter where we went. She may not have been my sister in Greek life but she is my sister in my heart. It doesn't matter what organization we call home because we are all Greek together. We both found somewhere that makes us happy, but never lost the happiness we brought each other. So, don't freak out if your best friend goes somewhere else. It won't change anything about your friendship. Who knows, maybe you'll even be closer.

"We weren't sisters by birth, but we new from the start, god put us on this earth to be sisters at heart."

Thanks for being the best friend I could ask for, despite where we each ended up.