“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
A best friend is someone who you can call at 6AM when your world falls apart and she won’t be mad, or sleepy, or upset– but rather offer to jump on the first plane to be by your side if you need her.
A best friend will pray every day for your daughter when she is sick until she gets better, even if it means taking her own children to church on a Tuesday for those special prayers.
A best friend is someone who you may not see in two years but when you get together it’s as if time has never lapsed.
A best friend will let you crash her family vacation when you decide you want to visit Colorado too, at amazingly the exact same week as her family!
A best friend also won’t get mad if you post photos of her on your blog without asking first… and she also won’t hesitate to ask you to take them down if she doesn’t want them posted (promise?)
When your best friend experiences a loss, you feel as if you’ve lost a part of yourself, too.
A best friend can make you smile in the worst of times, and in the best of times as well.
A best friend would never post an unflattering photo of you on Facebook. And maybe she wouldn’t even be on Facebook, no matter how hard I try to recruit her.
A best friend will know the exact necklace, bracelet, pair of socks that you would have picked out for yourself and will send it to you to cheer you up.
A best friend will fly up for your baby shower, and not even panic when you drive around Philly airport for an hour on fumes looking for a gas station. Nor will she gloat about being so skinny when you are so pregnant.
A best friend will say she loves your popovers when really the weekend she visited we accidentally made popunders.
A best friend will also not bat an eye when she almost eats expired yogurt from your fridge during said visit. And the organic milk was sour even though it technically hadn’t expired yet (stupid milk). She’ll just laugh and help herself to something else.
A best friend will go shopping with you, and no matter if it’s today or ten years ago you will both jump out of the dressing room to get the other’s opinion and be in the exact same outfit. But hers is two sizes smaller.
A best friend will always compliment your cute flip-flops at the same time that you are complimenting her trendy sunglasses.
A best friend will skip out on professional development with you and go to Dean and Deluca instead just because it’s a sunny day and PD was sooooooooooo boring.
When you move away from a best friend, it’s like leaving a childhood home. And when you go, your best friend will type up memories for you to pull out of a box every time you get homesick. Seven years later, you’ll still have that box full of memories!
A best friend knows about your blog, even when you’ve only told three other friends about it because you were embarrassed and didn’t think anyone would want to read what you’ve written. (Actually, I only told one other friend but two smarty-pants friends figured it out! And I’m glad they did).
A best friend would never judge you when you’ve had a fewwwwwwww too many mojitos. Or whatever the heck we were drinking.
When you write a blog post about your best friend, you can’t help but get teary-eyed (okay, cry like a baby) because really there aren’t enough ways to tell her thank you, or tell her how much your life is enriched because of her.
Most importantly, a best friend won’t be mad if you forget to call her on her birthday… and even though you forgot to call and her card is still sitting on the kitchen table ready to be mailed she knows you love her.
Happy {very belated} birthday, Nicky. Thank you for being the bestest friend in the world, and I hope your special day was a wonderful one. Sending lots of birthday love your way! I hope you’ll forgive me that I forgot to call on your birthday… you are never far from my thoughts, even if I didn’t pick up the phone to tell you that yet.
Edited to add: I’ve linked this to the BFF contest at Things I Can’t Say (9/2/10). Thanks, Shell, for hosting such a fun contest!
