Friendship is something that you have since your first
years; a friend is someone who you can tell anything anytime. Someone you share
your toys with, someone who you like to share time and every moment of the day.
When we were in a day care our best friend will be the one we share recess
with. I remember I had one best friend I can barely remember of; I think her
name was Alejandra. People changes the relationship they have when they change
school, when they move to another country, house, etc. I can only remember
Alejandra and me dancing the Barbie song when we were little, my other friend
in that day care was named Clarissa, I remember her house was very far away
from mine, our mothers talk very often and when my mother took me to her house
and spent all day at her house playing at her big garden with her little
brother, she had two big dogs that barked all day.

From that day care I passed to another school, I stopped
talking with Clarissa and Alejandra, wish I could talk to them now, I can’t
imagine what their life is now a days.  I was the youngest one at my new class. I can’t remember my
first day of school. I remember that I had many friends, but I can’t remember anybody
as my best friend; until 2nd grade my best friend name was Daniela,
we did everything together, we loved playing Barbies, at my house we had a
“club” at the end of the garden, we spent hours inventing new adventures and
love stories with Ken. Another good friend of mine was Nicole, she was the
granddaughter of my neighbor, so every Friday Nicole would be at my house, we
love drawing and playing Barbies outside. We watch many movies and ride bicycle
all afternoon. We used to believe that we were spies, so when there was any
kind of meeting at the condominium we went to the basement to listen what they
were talking about even tough we didn’t understand a thing. Nicole was older
than me, she had a brother that was my age and he always made me romantic
cards. Not long time ago I found a letter that Nicole and I singed, making a
promise that we would be friends forever. Now she is eighteen, and I’m sixteen,
we stopped talking when I was twelve.  She started dating and going to parties, we started having
many different activities so we ended our friendship.

Many friends come and go from my life, I had very close
friends at school, but most of the time I defer from them all, I always change
from friend to friend. This year I started hanging with a group of friends, we
are seven in total, I can’t believe that all this year we have been so close to
each other even tough we are completely different, we don’t share anything
aside from the strong friendship we have. I know I can count with them all, but
at different times, because with one I can talk about anything, with other only
about guys and relationships, other about religion, one of them about our
feelings, I’m very close to each one but in a different way, I love them all
because they have been a huge part of my life and they showed me that not every
person will give up on you. They had supported me in every decision I had taken
so far, they wiped my tears away, I won’t remember days but I will remember
moments, I know I could write so much about each of them, they have gigantic
hearts and have unconditional support on me, I feel 100% confortable when I’m
with them, I wouldn’t change our inside jokes for anything in this world.

I never had had a best friend until a new girl moved to my
condominium. I remember I was sitting at my living room when a skinny, blonde
and curly girl appear at the garden. I went outside and started talking to her,
she had a very weird accent, brackets and a hat, she told me she was from
Texas. That was the day I met my real best friend, we’ve been best friends for
nine and almost ten years now. I was seven years old and she was nine, we
started hanging out, but our difference of ages made us kind of fight for what
game were we playing, I loved Barnie and she didn’t, she liked taking pictures,
and I didn’t… and so on.  Until we
finally got a balance and tried to share things. There was another girl that
lived here, her name was Irit, she caused our first fight as best friends, we
didn’t talked for one day! As far as I can remember that is the biggest fight
we’ve been trough. I turned thirteen and I made a pajama party, I invited all
my friends from school, I remember she was kind of jealous and didn’t liked a
couple of friends, today those two girls aren’t my friends anymore. My best
friend has a talent of perceiving what is going to happen in a future, she is
like a mom to me, everything she tells me not to do, at the end she turns
having the reason. She was always the first person I would tell my secrets, we
spent entire weekends together, we made everything together. I remember every
prank we made. All the inside joke we had. All the tears and laughs we shared.
We were our own advisor. We made homework together. She helped me with my
English homework and I helped her with her Spanish homework. We went to so many
parties together. We talked for many hours in the phone. We went shopping a
couple of times. We took uncountable pictures together. I could never imagine
that having a truly best friend will mean so much to me. She is the sister I
never had, she became a part of my family and was there when I needed her the
most. I learned a friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your
future and accepts you just the way you are. A best friend is someone who will
never give up on you. This year she graduated from high school, I can believe
that time passed so fast, I remember all nights she was home alone I when to
eat pizza at her house and talk until 3 am. She is now living in Hawaii and studying
at the university, we had skype only once, I know our friendship will remain,
because she showed me that real friendship does exist. She is my soul mate the
only one that understood me and knew how to make me smile when I was sad. She
is one of the most independent and incredible women I have ever met, I’m proud
of saying that Kathleen Weeks is my best friend and no one in this world could
ever take her place.  You don’t
need a thousand fake friends, all you need is that one real friend.