11:50p

my hero
came back home a couple hours ago.
my best friend, R, took me out to dinner for my b-day gift...
even though she already spent TONS of time and money
to be with me in Vegas.
I swear...THAT girl! She's too thoughtful and kind.

we always laugh at ourselves...
we live less than a mile away from eachother,
yet we rarely see eachother.
funny thing is, we're always on the same page...as if we see
eachother everyday.

our friendship has actually always amazed me.
it's as if we were meant to be eachother's anchor
throughout our different life journeys.

We were even seperated for 4 years when I moved to another city/high school after sophomore year.
Things changed with us as individuals, but our friendship remained the same.

...and then BOOM! :

we ended up going to the same college,
we became college roommates (she was actually my first roommate ever!),
we ended up hanging with the same circle of friends again,
we served as officers together in our alumni chapter,
and now we're back where we started: living less than a mile away from eachother.

besides being a solid friend, sister, support...(and someone who is soo fun to make fun of!)
she's one of the most courageous people I know:
to be able to live true to yourself is not the easiest, especially when
the road ahead isn't always clear. but she's done it...100 times over.
and I swear, she's so much better for it.
Like, 5,000 times better!

I'm inspired by her solid sense of self, her sense of value/worth in herself, her power, and will to
continue to live life on her own terms...to live out her truths.
she's pretty revolutionary in my book.

she's my hero.