Friendship is

Friendship,

Friendship is a wonderful, beautiful, amazingly quirky thing.

It’s meeting for the first time at a random place with no expectation of getting to know anyone, until comes a simple, “Hello.”

It’s those awkward days, months, years figuring each other out and realizing what you have in common, and what you don’t.

It’s going to wild places and doing crazy things, maybe getting a bit injured or falling flat-faced in the mulch, but getting back up with a goofy grin.

It’s eating too many marshmallows and singing till your voice cracks and your head is filled with the replaying fragments of Taylor Swift.

It’s giggling till your stomach hurts over a certain movie or book or even art you’ve made, even if it's dumb.

It’s thinking something really stupid is really funny and getting in trouble but going through it together, maybe still laughing under your breath.

It’s staying up late at a sleepover to watch a movie only one of you likes and learning to like it too.

It’s gossiping and talking about drama and what’s happening in life and having those awkward conversations about crushes, enemies, growing up, hormones, identity and silly and scary secrets.

It’s fighting over a random thing and then sighing and forgiving each other for it all.

It’s letting yourself cry and be vulnerable when you’re hurting and helping them when they hurt, telling each other, “It’s going to be okay.”

It’s being right by their side through their life the whole time through the ups and downs and not letting go and picking them up when they fall.

It’s texting and emailing each other goofy messages and calling each other over facetime for a whopping two to three hours, still smiling, and oh so much more.

But what it really is is love;

Love for each other;

Someone who’s always there, no matter what.

A companion,

A soulmate, you could say.

A real,

true,

friend.