Some friendships have embarrassing beginnings and bitter endings, some are cumbersome to maintain, but sometimes, (read: rarely), they’re exactly what you need. Much like this friendship.
In the seven years that I’ve known her, the one thing she’s taught me is: how to be myself, with no room for compromise. On my darkest days, she’s reiterated that I’m good enough until I’ve begun to believe it myself. She’s stood right by me and let me shine during my best.
I’ve never felt the need to share every detail of my life with her to feel cared for. I don’t have to text her everyday to feel close. Things are easy, free-flowing, enough. We’ve come a long way from being 16 years olds navigating university, to trying to live life on our own terms at 23.
She also happens to be breathtakingly beautiful, a constant source of light and happiness in the midst of tiresome put-ons.
Erin Lee Carr ended All That You Leave Behind with “YOU (now go write someone you love an email)”. I took it one step further and wrote her a blog post.
To Amani: I love you
okay chalo 