My best friend is 2,340 miles away from me. With all of these changes and with all of this distance between us, keeping our friendship fruitful and healthy will be needless to say, difficult. However, I am determined to work on our relationship, regardless. I am a firm believer that distance should never be a reason for any relationship to end.

Just like I have promised my boyfriend one FaceTime date a day, I have too promised my best friend. Contrary to what most people believe, friendships are just like a relationship. A prosperous and healthy friendships requires work. A friendship requires accountability. A friendship can not be neglected; it requires time. Most importantly a friendship calls for me to love the other person more than I love myself.

Most people will choose to not confront friends if they have wronged them, but that is not the way that we have been designed to be in relationship with one another. Friendships are supposed to be very similar to a significant other kind of relationship because friendships teach us how to better be in those "love" kind of relationships.

Distance has a way of making the heart grow fonder. The things that I took for granted about my best friend have become my favorite things about her. There are a lot of things that we can no longer do because of the 2,340 miles separating us. We can not just stop by each other's houses, have sleep overs, or do anything that normal best friends get to do. Instead we have to settle for late night FaceTime dates just to catch up. We chose to take every block of time separately to make it a little more painless. It is not that we will be apart for these four years, but rather we will see each other at Christmas time, then during summer, and so on.

There are a few things that will never change no matter how much distance is between us. She will always be my best friend, and no one will ever know me better than she does. I will never find someone who empowers me to be a better woman like she does, he determination is inspiring. I know for a fact I will never find someone whose sense of humor matches mine so effortlessly. I wish she lived down the street, but I will never forget how she changed my life. When I met her, I found me.