So, I still have that unfinished blog I started that I can post (after wrapping it up), but now I'm not sure if it'll even go up... mainly because these posts are largely "spur-of-the-moment" posts, and going back to how I felt when I started that particular one, may not be easy lol.
Anyway, besides being another form for me to procrastinate from my studying, today's post is about my two best friends and myself. Yeah, I know, I can seem pretty self-centered in these post, but their mine... so :P
So, my two best friends. You might be thinking "two best friends?" Yeah, I know that the idea of "Best Friend"(s) as different meanings to different people. For instance, in high school I had a few friends who I would refer to as "one of my best friends" because we were closer than "close friends" but they weren't my "Best Friends" (neither of which went to school with me...). I still talk to most of these people (primarily on facebook, but it's the best we can do lol). I have actually talked to a few of them in person since we graduated, but some of us have basically become "URL" friends now, which is okay, but I still miss seeing them everyday in class. And, I have made some friends in college in the past year, but none of them are really "Best Friends" and I'm not nearly as close to them as I still am with the people I grew up with, so, it does get kind of lonely being separated from them.
In the case of my two Best Friends, one of them went to the same school as me for a year, and the other one never went to school with me (in fact, she went to my school's rival high school). I'll use my nicknames for them for this post...
I have known Kiefer since we were 4 years old. Even though my family had moved to the small town I grew up in when I was 3 (on the day we later found out to be Kiefer's 3rd birthday...), Kiefer was the first friend I made after we moved...over a year later. My mom enrolled my younger brother and me in a "parents day out" program that Kiefer's mom just happened to be running...and (to be cliché) the rest was history. We went to the same school for kindergarten. At the start of the school year, she started Girl Scouts. When the next semester started, my mom put me in the troop, too. We both stuck with Scouting until the end. In fact, Scouting is how we met Sheen...and how we stayed together for so long.
We didn't meet Sheen until a few years later. On top of me being in Girl Scouts, my two brothers were Cub Scouts, my two little sister were Girl Scouts, and my mom was a "Pack Leader" and later a "Cub Master" (this means she went on to be in charge of the Cub Scout troop). When Sheen's family moved to our county, her dad and uncle signed her brother and cousins up for Cub Scouts, and that's how my mom met their family. They didn't find out until a while later that there was Girl Scouts for the girl in their family to join. Before she officially joined our troop (and I actually met her), I didn't really know anything about Sheen. At the Cub Scout Christmas party, "Santa" showed up and handed out presents to the Scouts and their siblings. The very first time I saw Sheen was at the Christmas party when we were 9. When "Santa" called her name, she refused to go get her present. I saw her mom and aunt pushing her towards him; even her dad and uncle joined in. I thought she was being rude and I couldn't understand why.
When I officially met her a few weeks later at the first Girl Scout meeting of the new year, I found out that she had a huge fear of Santa, and that's why she wouldn't go up (that and she was really shy.) I also found out a few years later that her first impression of me wasn't that great either. She had seen me sitting all "prim and proper" at the party and thought that I was a snooty girl... If our friendship isn't proof that first impressions don't last, I don't know what is lol.
Through the years of Girl Scouting, many girls joined and left, but when it came down to us entering our last year of Scouting, we were the three left. Each year found us closer together, and even though our last year together before college was busy, we made sure we had time for Scouting. Kiefer's mom had eventually become our troop leader, and the four of us did all that we could together in that last year. Kiefer, Sheen, and I all went to my senior prom together, and they were the best dates anyone could ever wish for. After spending time at the actual dance and going out to eat, we went bowling (in our prom dresses) and had a blast.
I know that many people don't want to let go after high school, but they eventually do and blah blah blah. I know that people lose contact and move on, but we have refused to. Even though we all went different directions for college, we have continued to be super close. Sure, we don't have our bi-monthly meetings where we would usually get to see each other, but we talk all of the time online. We made sure that we got together and spent a few hours just hanging out at McDonald's during Christmas break last year. We even found time to get together for a pseudo-bachelorette party (not really, but the closest she had to one) a few days before Kiefer and I were bridesmaids in Sheen's wedding. (Yes, we saw each other at the wedding shower before then, but it wasn't just us then...).
At our get together before the wedding, I gave Sheen and Kiefer mix cds tailored for each of them and a tie (because I've worn ties on Wednesdays for a while and the wedding was going to be on a Wednesday.). I also made a video of pictures and video clips of us spending time together. I'm listening to their "playlists" now and doing some fun "creative" editing of photos of us together and becoming very nostalgic. (Hence the title and the long post about them).
Sometimes it's hard being so far away from them, but it gives me strength and joy knowing that I will see them again relatively soon. Even if Sheen wasn't expecting (which were all SUPER excited about and congrats to Sheen and her husband if they happen to read this... :) ), we would be planning on getting together on a break from school. We may be separated now, but we always find our way back together. We've been best friends for this long, and we're not going to let a little thing like life keep us apart.
Friends may come, and friends may go, but Best Friends are forever :)
-andrea aka fred
*PS: my nickname with them is Platt, not fred...if you get where our names came from, then you get extra special awesome points :)*
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