Your whole life you plan for your future. You dream about your career, and traveling, and your wedding. But you have that awkward stage after high school where you are constantly battling the feeling of needing to have everything in life figured out, and running around with one hand over your eyes and one out in front of you for blinded guidance.

Then, you have this one person who you always turn to, the person who is your right hand, your rock when life gets too tough, your very best friend. You never really imagine life without her. She is in all the images that race through your mind, and is always standing right next to you in them.

Sometimes your paths don't merge like a perfect movie.

They go completely different directions, to different cities, colleges, countries. Suddenly here you are making memories with people who are great friends and you turn around and think, wow she would really have loved this. Or its 3 am and a stupid boy has been a jerk for way too long, and you really just need to rant and eat ice cream with the person who knows you best.

Early life and college is so hard when its not spent with your best friend. Learning brand new parts of a friendship that you've never had to explore. How to get over it when face time is just not an option. How it could be days before we talk, sometimes weeks when busy lifestyles get in the way. Simply learning to navigate our own lives without having that one person there that you once seen everyday.

But those catch up calls, and the sweet moment when you see each other again; that makes the wait worth it.

It is like no time has passed and we pick right up where left off, tell all the crazy stories of new friends and adventures. We laugh and reminisce. We create enough memories to hold us off until next time.

Although countless miles separate us, we grow up, we learn, we fail, we succeed. I will always be her best friend and no one can take that place.

And there is always those days where life just seems to not give in, and as soon as that free moment opens up a call is made. When no one else around you could possibly understand, amidst all the chaos of trying to find our places in the world, I know I can depend on her.

Early life and college is like constantly trying to keep your head above the water, and when shes not there sometimes its discouraging. But I know were both leading our lives to greater destinations.

I will always support and encourage her throughout life even from half a world away. No amount of distance or time could separate us, not really. Life will continually change but our friendship will remain the same.

"If there's an upside to free-falling, its the chance you give your friends to catch you." -Greys Anatomy