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When Your Best Friends Are Actually Your Soulmates

Because soulmates aren't reserved for romantic partners.

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When Your Best Friends Are Actually Your Soulmates
Alexa Brenner

This concept of soulmates has always been an interesting one. The one person you're supposed to spend your whole life searching for. I have never really bought into that concept -- that there's one person out there for you. Full disclosure, I'm in a relationship and my boyfriend is great and we're pretty great together and for each other. But even so, we've never thrown around the word soulmates.

However, I do believe that there are people who are just meant to be. They are supposed to be in your life, one way or another. You meet them, and for one reason or another you are instantly friends. And I mean instant connection type of friendship. You say three words to the person and suddenly it's like you've know each other your whole lives. It's like a piece of you has been missing, and you didn't know it until they popped up in your life.

I call these people "soulmate best friends". They are the people who you can call at any hour of the day or night just to make a run to Wawa. They are the friends who are 100% honest with you all the time, and will tell you when you're messing things up for yourself.

My soulmate best friends are always there to remind me that I'm ridiculous. They tell me that I'm doing a good job, and that my food is really yummy even if I don't think so myself. They buy me coffee mugs for Christmas and Hanukkah, which just contributes to my addiction to coffee and tea. They support my need for naps and my ability to curl up anywhere for a quick snooze.

I met my first soulmate best friend in college. She and I haven't seen each other since graduating in June 2014. I miss her with all of my heart, and I can't wait until our paths cross again.

Since coming to college, there have been a few people who I just instantly clicked with. We sit in each other's beds and talk until the sun comes up. We lay together and talk for hours, squeezed into tiny, twin sized dorm beds. They help me pick out my clothes because even as a junior in college, I still don't know how to dress myself. Being away on break is like willingly cutting off my own arm when I'm apart from these people. They're so integrated in your daily life, that it's hard to go a day without them. When you don't see them for a few days, you feel thrown off like something is wrong, when in reality you just haven't seen your people. But even when you don't see them for a while, it's like no time at all has passed, and we fall back into our normal routine.

It's important to know who these people are in your life. To love them, to acknowledge them, and to tell them how much you love them. So, to my soulmate best friends, I love you. Always and forever.

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