Backstory: The summer before my senior year of high school, I went to a summer leadership camp for student council. Generally at this camp, you room with people from your high school. I ended up rooming with a girl from across the state and let me tell you, I couldn’t imagine life without her.

When you give a girl a random roommate, you’re giving her the chance to make a best friend. You are giving her the chance to find her soul sister, her person, and her best friend. When you give a girl a random roommate, you are giving her someone she’ll stay up all night talking to and be exhausted all next day at camp. Someone she will tell her life story to even though they just met.

My roommate became my soul sister. We had so much in common it was crazy. She shared her snacks with me and we talked about life all night. Leaving camp was hard, especially since we didn’t know when we would see each other again. We cried and hugged, telling each other how much we loved each other, hoping to see each other soon. The last night at camp we stayed up talking all night, writing letters to our council (we were mixed into groups with students from other schools. The groups were called councils, and each council was a letter of the alphabet. I was in Council S and my roommate was in Council W.) You write you council letters called magic notes. My roommate and I stayed up all night talking, writing our magic notes, and eating the rest of her snacks. So when you give a girl a random roommate, you are giving her someone to share snacks with and late night conversations. You are giving her someone to make memories with and share moments with.

It would be a year before we saw each other again, at a student council conference in my hometown. We ran up to each other and hugged forever. We had a year's worth of hugs to catch up on. But that next year we seemed to have lost touch for while, but whenever we talked, we could pick up where we left off, because when you give a girl a random roommate, you are giving her a life long best friend. When you give her a lifelong best friend, you are giving her someone she can just pick up where they left off.

And here we are a year later, and I will get to see her soon again. And of course, we have a year’s a worth of hugs to catch up on again. And a year’s worth of stories to tell that are too much to type out in a text. So when you give a girl a random roommate, you are giving her the friend who will always have her back and will always be there for her.