What is a best friend? I don't think I've really understood what a best friend means until this last year. I mean, I've had one, and she is great, spectacular and always has been. I've always known that.
However, I realized that a best friend does not happen over night or in a matter of weeks or months. A best friend proves herself over years. She sees you at your worst--snotty, crying, blotchy eyes, sobbing; or selfish, whiny, complaining. She loves you anyway. She knows that someday the roles will be reversed. She sees you at your best and celebrates when something exciting and major is happening. She keeps you accountable even when you don't want her to. She listens to you, lets you vent, then she tells you to buck up and stop wallowing in self-pity.
When the two of you go to concerts, sometimes you don't get backstage passes and laugh at each other for even expecting them.
When you're going through a break-up, she brings home a stuffed animal for you and writes you note to make you feel better about yourself.
When you need someone to study with, she's right there to study with you because she's taking the same Cultural Development class.
When you're having a bad day because you're thinking about your friend who passed away, she's there to hug you and let you cry without saying anything.
When the two of you show up to work or class wearing almost the same outfit and people ask if you planned it, you swear that you didn't.
When the two of you go places together, you always have an adventure. Even if it's in the dead of winter at Niagara Falls.
When you're in a job that you just can't stand, she keeps you in the loop about a position at her workplace because she just can't wait to work at the same place.
When you've moved across the country because you know it's exactly where God wants you, she calls you to tell you that she really wishes you were still there. She checks up on you each week.
When she's upset, you're the first person she wants to talk to.
Sometimes you think alike, sometimes you don't. She keeps you accountable and you do the same for her.
2 comments:
Ok, so you actually made me tear up which you know is sometimes hard to do. I love you dearly and wouldn't change any part of our friendship!! :)
Aww, Leah, i can only hope that Becky and i will one day have all of the amazing experiences that you and Hannah have had! <3<3<3 (Not to say that Becky and i haven't had some pretty amazing experiences... :D)
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