Hearing your voice

I watched The Perks of Being a Wallflower this week. It's where the quote "we accept the love we think we deserve" came from. It's a beautifully done movie. It really is. The book changed my life. I mean that 110% and the movie was an AMAZING representation of the book. I truly loved it. It made me remember the friends and the community that I have like that back home. The ones that will go for drives just to feel the wind in your hair. And the ones that have that ONE SONG that just makes everything seem okay that you hear one day on the radio and can never find again, but when you do find it it's MAGIC and everything is great again.

 I have that friend. I've had him my entire life. Sometimes I forget what it's like to have that one person that GETS you, until I'm around him and all my worries, all my cares just seem to drift away. My best friend called me today. He'd had a bad night, I've had a bad month and in that first second he said "it's great to hear your voice" and it was! It was AMAZING to hear his voice. I just felt that in that second it was all alright because I knew that no matter how bad things got I would ALWAYS have him at my side.

I don't really remember what my life was like before him or without him. There have been long periods of time that we haven't talked but we were always there for each other when it mattered...when it was necessary. He's always the person that I imagine dancing like an idiot with me at my wedding and making fun of the groom. It's always been important to me that he like the people I was with because I knew if he didn't get along with them it didn't really matter. He's the best person I could ever ask to have in my life. It's my other half. The yin to my yang.

I have recognized lately how much a part of me he is. It's dreadful being so far away where I can't just call him and meet him wherever he is to go on some adventure or bake a pie or grab a beer. He's so much a part of me and I of him. I didn't realize how lucky I was to have found my best friend at such a young age. He'll always be my partner-in-crime, my brother, my confidante.