"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles."- Audrey Hepburn

Feb 14, 2011

This one goes out to all the best friends


It's a different type of love, and maybe we all need a break from the achy, dramatic love that comes with romance, the kind that excludes the rest of the world, the kind that's limited only to you and him / her.

So this one goes out to all the best friends in the world. The ones that smile for you when you excitedly fall in love with some new, unknown boy. The ones that sit through a bottle of tequila with you at two to five in the morning listening to you cry about said boy who cheated on you, even though they've got to be up at six for work. The ones that take time off work / school just for a little naughty afternoon shopping and eating on weekday. The ones who drag you to social events just to distract you from a broken heart. The ones who respond to every Facebook status update, just so you don't feel so alone and ignored. The ones who recognize you have a right to feel as shitty as you do about the boy who hurt you even though they'd spent the last two years telling you he was nothing but trash, the ones who don't tell you that you're a fool, that you have a right to hurt. Because they're also the ones who have the strength and the love enough to tell you to snap out of it, that he was never worth it. Because they're also the ones who have the courage to be honest enough to tell you that you'd be a fool to take the manipulative creep back. They are the ones who bombard his messenger account with warnings to leave you alone, the ones who tell him behind your back to leave you well and alone, to stop messing with your mind when he's already with someone else. And they are the ones who introduce you to new and wonderfully normal and loving boys.

This one also goes out to all the best other-gender best friends in the world. The ones that pick you up late at night for supper, just to take you out of your head. The ones that show you not all the men in the world are screw-ups and traitors.  The ones that help you believe that good people still exist in the world. The ones you can laugh with without wanting to kiss. The ones who can give you that insight into that boy's soul you've been dying to know. The ones who swear they'll beat up or get the triads to beat up the poor sod who had the poor judgment to cheat on someone as wonderful and incredible as you. This one goes out to all the incredible best other-gender best friends in the world who stuck around even when you abandoned them because your possessive ex-boyfriend went loco every time you even spoke to them. The ones that love you exactly the way you are. The ones that don't mind you snuggling against them just for a warm body without asking for anything more. The ones that come all the way down to the club from home just to drive you home. The ones that cry with you when you sit in your darkness wondering what you've done to deserve such betrayal from the one boy you'd give anything for. The ones that hurt with you when you're drowning in your darkness. The ones that hurt because they see your pain and can't do anything to touch you, or to help you.

Friends fight sometimes. We disagree. We laugh at each other. But friends are something else altogether. Friends are God's way of saying: here, I know it's tough trying to find your soulmate, but here are some other people you know for sure you can count on forever. They're like family, but better because they love you without the moral obligation attached.

I see you, my lovable friends. This is my apology, for what I have ever done to our friendships, and this is my way of reminding the world that there is more love in the world than what exists between a guy and a girl.


az.
4:34am 2/14/11
[Cuz I can't sleep and have the urge to write]