"Where does she end and I begin?"
I ask myself this question daily really. Do you ever look at your best friend and wonder what's yours and what's theirs? Things like the way we talk, the movies we like, our hand gestures. Did I get that from her or did she get that from me? It's kind of crazy how spending so much time with a person can change you. Literally. As best friends, we've probably gone through many versions of ourselves throughout the years. Here's the thing, we do a lot of things normal BFFs do. We live together, we're involved in the same extracurricular activities, we have most of the same friends, we enjoy a lot of the same things, and we're essentially a package deal when it comes to most situations. But this doesn't mean that we don’t have separate identities. We are actually quite different.
The differences in our friendship are the things that make us even closer. Best friends know their differences and learn to accept them and in most cases, adapt to them. She likes pickles and I don't, but if that's the snack she chooses then best believe I’ll be eating them with her. I have an unhealthy obsession with One Direction {RIP 2010-2016} and she didn't know many of their songs, but she learned all of them and is right there to jam with me. She shows me movies from her extensive movie collection and I show her songs from my extensive Spotify playlists. We have many differences that people don’t always see but they make us who we are. We are two very similar, yet very different people, who've become best friends.
A best friend, despite your differences, can make you an even better version of yourself. You don't even realize how much you've changed until a family member points it out. "You're so much more outgoing now." Well it isn't me who is very outgoing, it's her. She taught me to be more confident in who I am and I can't thank her enough for that. Without her, a lot of my self-confidence disappears but I'm still miles from where I was before our friendship. I told her once in high school on a hot street in San Antonio, Texas that I wasn't funny until I met her. She laughed immediately after I told her that but it's so true. Our sense of humor has somehow molded into a mix of both of us. I can't even begin to figure out where her jokes end and mine begin.
We really do bring out the best in each other. The two of us are like the components of a fine mixed drink, okay separately but fantastic together. And while our personalities have blurred boundaries of where she ends and I begin, I wouldn't want to be the person I was before I knew my best friend. I know that we are both pretty awesome as individuals but together we are unstoppable. I can only hope to have taught her as much as she's taught me. This is a friendship that will last a lifetime.
