to my best friend —

• i may not always be with you, but even when we're far apart, remember you will be with me, right inside my heart.
• let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and i'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. let the stars keep track of us. let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. may our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies
• a friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us god's forgiveness. a friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. a friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "isn't that beautiful?' or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. with a friend we don't have to say or do something special. with a friend we can be still and know that we are there for each other.
• it is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.
• we are friends for life. when we're together the years fall away. isn't that what matters? to have someone who can remember with you? to have someone who remembers how far you've come?
• when we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. the friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares
• what is a friend? we probably all have our own definitions. for me, it's someone i don't feel alone with. who doesn't bore me. whose life i connect with and who takes reciprocal interest in my life. It’s someone i feel comfortable turning to when i need to be talked off the ledge, and for whom i am glad to return the favor.
• a friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself and especially to feel, or not feel. whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. that's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
• it's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. they're not. they're just variations of the same love. variations of the same desire to be close.
• some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. some you meet and you never really know at all. and then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.