To my forever-best friend,
Everyone deserves a friend like you. Moving almost four hours away from home to start the beginning of my college career wasn’t an easy task to manage from the start. On top of that, I found myself unable to come to terms with how to manage a friendship from four hours away.
When I first received the news of my acceptance to Binghamton, neither of us could contain our excitement-- it was as if it was your acceptance letter we were jumping up and down with joy for. Little did we know that in just a few short months, we’d be parting ways and wouldn’t know how to completely handle the changes that came with it. The promises we made to keep in constant contact with each other, from daily phone calls and Skype sessions to making elaborate plans to visit one another for a weekend proved to be futile.
It was only a matter of time before our hours on end phone conversations turned into rain checks and eventful Skype conversations turned into fast-paced, hurried ones that were cut short because of other plans with friends and boyfriends. Days, even weeks, have passed where we don’t talk and it’s because of plans made in advance with other people in our lives.
We always promised one another that we would tell each other what eventful things happened since the last time we talked, for it to only result in taking yet another rain check. Even after all of this, we still manage to reconcile once we find our way back to Queens, making a set plan to meet up at the others very familiar house that we've spent many rainy Saturday’s watching Law and Order: SVU marathons in.
To my forever-best friend, whom I had the greatest pleasure of crossing paths with in the first grade, you are my easiest hello and my hardest goodbye. I’ve never had any speck of hesitancy running to you with a problem, knowing you can help me. To my forever-best friend, the thought of not having you to come back home to after a semester of long, torturous work is ridiculous to me.
The saying, “everything happens for a reason” was explicitly made for the two of us and for the simple fact of the matter that we were destined to meet so early on in our lives, and to be there for the other when one of us is feeling anything short of fabulous. To be each other’s rock and guidance through the tougher times and to be there to laugh with one another when nobody else understands our not-so-funny humor.
To my forever-best friend, everyone deserves a friend like you.
