Sketching a Friend
A true friend is someone who understands you, someone who shares your own interests. Friends are made, not born. The majority of your life lasting friends are made at school. Well, this is where I met one of my best friends. We share more than interests, the same values. When it comes to partying and meeting people, I am very peculiar and she is the same way. We always have fun together, we laugh like we are 5 years old. We have known each other forever, even though we did not talked a lot before, we have always been together in activities. We played basketball together in elementary school, our team was a great group, we were no more than 10 players, but since we were a team for almost 7 years, we acclimated easily. Most of elementary school I limited my number of friends to one person. She was my best friend until one day, out of the blue she stop talking to me. That same day I promised myself I would have many friends and I would talk to anyone despite the differences we could have. Everyone has a “dark age” so to speak. Well mine was in the 6th grade where I used to hang out with people who weren’t exactly good friends. Thank God it only lasted for less than one year when I finally realize that we did not share the same interests or characteristics. In the 7th grade they started the new section, section C. I was moved to this section with people that I had not actually take the time to meet. It was a good change for me. I made a lot of friends here, most of them are still good friends of mine today. Well in this section I also became a very good friend of the person I am writing about. We immediately clicked. Sometimes it happens, that you meet people you instantly realize you are similar and you create a bond. A bond very difficult to break. Well we have overcome many problems. She is the one person who knows everything about me. Sadly we were mostly friends in school. When it came out to partying we hardly bumped into each other. Still every monday morning we both came to school anxiously waiting to tell one another our weekend. She is one of those who you know you can trust right after you meet. Until today I know I can tell her anything I want to and be sure she would keep it to herself. People like this are hard to find. She has a great heart, always wanting to help, and besides all her amazing characteristics she is brilliant in school. She has been for the past 5 years, as I recall, number one in our class, or at least number one in my account. I am very proud of her because I know that everything she owns, the merits and accomplishments, she has worked for them and I know she will do great in every aspect of her life. I think the best years for our friendship have been 10th, 11th and 12th grade. This is probably due to the fact that we both grew up and our friendship grew stronger. Since the 10th grade she sits next to me in school, she is the kind of person you can tell anything without feeling any shame and knowing that she would never judge you. We share the same interests like TV shows or sports and values as I said before, but besides this we have almost the same type of humor, we always make each other laugh. Having the same humor with someone can be somehow negative, because people may feel a competition and push the other person away, this was never a problem for us, having the same humor made it easier for us to get along. A true friend is hard to find and being able to overcome problems and prevail friendship with someone as special as my friend is overwhelming. The person I am talking about has become family to me, she is my unrelated sister, she understands me like nobody else, different blood is the only thing that prevents us from being family. We even have the same dog. We tell each other everything!
As I said before, it is a shame I did not take the time to meet her before, because now that we are in 12th grade, only a step out of school, I realize that we are inevitably growing apart. We both are going to take different paths; of our friendship I am not worried, I know it will last forever, it is the fact that she has been there literally with me in every important moment of my life. Lately we have not had the opportunity to hang out the same way we used to do, it may feel like we are both meeting new people, this has been, from my side, maybe unconsciously, because I am used to the fact of having her everyday with me, and I know next year that will not happen. Maybe I’m just trying to make the most difficult time of my life a little bit easier. I am not scared of the future, i am only scared to go through it without her, after all she is, the most special person in my life. She understands my like no other, just the idea of this year being our last one together, bums me out. I know we share an unbreakable bond, because she is my best friend, my unrelated sister, my confidant!
