A 16 Year Friendship...
I'm only 21 and I feel like I'm in the minority of those who can say that they have a 16 year friendship. I'm lucky.
I can't wait to be 80 and say I have a 75 year friendship still going strong...Okay, maybe I can wait to be 80. But regardless, I'm willing to bet that Alex will still be one of my friends.
I know she is going to see me get married, babysit my dogs and maybe kids someday. She's going to go on vacations with me and help me escape the stress of real life. She's always been there and she always will be.
We've had a funny journey on our path to a lasting friendship because we basically started off hating one another. Our moms made us play together because our oldest brothers were friends. We would rotate who got to pick what we did. I think we purposely picked things that the other disliked the most. I wanted to jump on her in-ground trampoline, and she wanted to play with these quint dolls I had. We only agreed on playing spies. Or at least we think we liked to play that together.
We went to middle school together and bonded over our dissecting class. We did the pre-lab dissecting on a hotdog and that is when our friendship truly blossomed.
Since then it has been years of inside jokes (fat walruses and following an edible arrangements truck) making up stories about "what if we did this"(stole that car with those kids in it), giving each other a hard time, and eating sooo many meals together. I love it.
I think a time when our friendship developed even more is when she transfered to the same college as me. We didn't go to high school or the first year and a half of college together. I regret that I worried so much about her coming. But am so glad she ended up making the decision. I think I was worried that high school Alex and college Samantha may have grown apart. I was so wrong though because I didn't realize that college Alex was who I would be with. That one of my best friends had changed so much in the year and a half she'd been away at college. She'd grown up so much. I think that is one of my favorite things about her transferring, I realize how pointless it was for me to worry, and in turn I am surprised all the time. I'm surprised by her maturity, I'm surprised by her growth, I'm surprised by the woman she has become. And I'm so proud that I've gotten to see the development. I know it won't end here, we have years to go in our friendship and I'll see her change even more. I'll be fortunate to witness it all.
Though it's ever changing and developing, it still provides me comfort and constancy. It has had its ebbs and lulls throughout the past 16 years but it has always been there. She has always been there.
Whether we are going out to dinner, or running an errand to Target(even if I get lost on the way), we tend to enjoy it. I'm looking forward to the times when we will laugh so hard we cry (Alex only out of one of her eyes) and the times I will feel a wave of relief knowing that no matter what, I'll have her support. I could thank her everyday for being there for me and being such a good friend, but instead I'll sum it up and say...
Luh you Alex :)
I can't wait to be 80 and say I have a 75 year friendship still going strong...Okay, maybe I can wait to be 80. But regardless, I'm willing to bet that Alex will still be one of my friends.
I know she is going to see me get married, babysit my dogs and maybe kids someday. She's going to go on vacations with me and help me escape the stress of real life. She's always been there and she always will be.
We've had a funny journey on our path to a lasting friendship because we basically started off hating one another. Our moms made us play together because our oldest brothers were friends. We would rotate who got to pick what we did. I think we purposely picked things that the other disliked the most. I wanted to jump on her in-ground trampoline, and she wanted to play with these quint dolls I had. We only agreed on playing spies. Or at least we think we liked to play that together.
We went to middle school together and bonded over our dissecting class. We did the pre-lab dissecting on a hotdog and that is when our friendship truly blossomed.
Since then it has been years of inside jokes (fat walruses and following an edible arrangements truck) making up stories about "what if we did this"(stole that car with those kids in it), giving each other a hard time, and eating sooo many meals together. I love it.
I think a time when our friendship developed even more is when she transfered to the same college as me. We didn't go to high school or the first year and a half of college together. I regret that I worried so much about her coming. But am so glad she ended up making the decision. I think I was worried that high school Alex and college Samantha may have grown apart. I was so wrong though because I didn't realize that college Alex was who I would be with. That one of my best friends had changed so much in the year and a half she'd been away at college. She'd grown up so much. I think that is one of my favorite things about her transferring, I realize how pointless it was for me to worry, and in turn I am surprised all the time. I'm surprised by her maturity, I'm surprised by her growth, I'm surprised by the woman she has become. And I'm so proud that I've gotten to see the development. I know it won't end here, we have years to go in our friendship and I'll see her change even more. I'll be fortunate to witness it all.
Though it's ever changing and developing, it still provides me comfort and constancy. It has had its ebbs and lulls throughout the past 16 years but it has always been there. She has always been there.
Whether we are going out to dinner, or running an errand to Target(even if I get lost on the way), we tend to enjoy it. I'm looking forward to the times when we will laugh so hard we cry (Alex only out of one of her eyes) and the times I will feel a wave of relief knowing that no matter what, I'll have her support. I could thank her everyday for being there for me and being such a good friend, but instead I'll sum it up and say...
Luh you Alex :)
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