Dear Best Friend,

When I came to college, I had hopes and wishes that I would find a friend that I could be myself around. I wanted someone who accepted me, but who was also very much like me. Sadly, I didn’t find exactly that. I found something better; something even more genuine and more realistic, I found my other half.

It’s safe to say that I’m one of the lucky ones. Not many people can say that they found a best friend in college because many of them get stuck with roommates who don’t shower and classmates who snicker when you ask them for the homework. Fortunately enough I’ve found someone who lets me copy their hairstyles, grabs my laundry when I forget it's in the dryer, and pretends to be hungry at dinner because I am starving.

After meeting you I cannot imagine life without you. It’s unfathomable to think about not having you or not texting you 24/7, and not knowing every little thing you’ve done all day from eating cereal to sleeping naked. You have had more of an impact on me than you could ever even imagine. You have had more faith in me than I have ever had in myself and for that I am forever grateful.

I don’t even care how many guys you’ve slept with. I don’t care that you’re smarter, more beautiful, and more genuine than me. I love it. I don’t even care that you tell me to “just shut up!” when I try to have a serious conversation, because I know you’ll be there when I need you the most. I don’t care how disgusting I find it when you sleep in my bed when you don’t shower. I don’t mind that you leave your stuff at my house and it clutters in the corner. That’s your corner now, seriously. I can’t remember the last time that “your corner” actually had my things in it. I don’t care that we fight every weekend over the dumbest things. At the end of the night we laugh, and stop because we remember how much we love each other.

Thank you best friend for staying up late and studying with me. Thank you for accompanying me at Seven Eleven when all I wanted was a slurpee, and for paying when I forgot my wallet. Thank you for tolerating my mood swings, for figuring out why I’m upset even I don’t know why, and for doing everything in your absolute power to solve that mystery. Thanks for letting me wear your clothes (by wearing I mean keeping). Thank you for the memories and for everything that I won’t forget after coming out of this year. From causing trouble and starting arguments. to bettering ourselves, and working together. Thank you for being the one who I can look back with and say with a smile “we did it.”

As we end our freshman year, and go our separate ways this summer, there will never be a time when I am not calling you my best friend. “And in her I see all of the fruit I could ever be or want to be or dreamt of.”