Testimonial For Larissa
Larissa is maybe my best friend - or at least, she’s one of my many best friends, but is one that I am particularly close to. I only say “maybe” because I’ve never had a best friend, and that’s my fault for never letting myself get close to anyone and for not wanting people to feel left out, and I also have two other people right now calling me their “best friends”, so they are mine, too, and I am just as close to them. In spite of this, she is someone who I connect with very well - and who, I think, connects with me as well. She’s emotional, and self-aware. She is observant of the ways of other people, and is even interested in those who she has never spoken to. In spite of her depression, she is one of the people who is truly alive. She is vulnerable. She lives. She may not live all the time, and she may often live inside her head, but when she gets out there, she lives. She is all-consuming in the best possible way. She is the idea that “blondes have more fun”, not in a slutty way, but in a way of actually being funny, being able to enjoy your own company and showing others how to really throw yourself into positive situations and feelings.
Larissa was the first person who I identified with through my own experiences. She described to me how depressed she felt, and I identified with it as low self-esteem - then, I wrote up this massive… paper-essay-thing that detailed my own feelings, and she said: “Hey, I feel that way, too.” If it weren’t for Larissa, my love of people would have never flourished and I would have no motivation today. I would have no purpose in life. I would not know what I want to do for a job, and I would possibly have no Hope at all. Larissa has saved my life many times because of this, without knowing it. I am thankful, I am thankful, I am thankful.
I’m slightly jealous of one thing about Larrie: her energy. She’s an INFP, and she’s very quiet and, for someone with severe anxiety, quite calm. Though she panics, she maintains a zen, nurturing and composed kind of… I’m sorry, there’s no other word for it… aura. This is something I’ve always wanted to attain, but never could. My own energy is spastic, over-the-top, outbursting and adoring. Amandus Interruptus. But Larissa, even when she’s all-in for something, manages to be… weirdly whole. She doesn’t go all over the place. She stays who she is in all situations. Larissa has a strange elegance in her quirky character! I’ve always found her slightly mysterious in some way. Though her honesty and bluntness can be overbearing and wearing, it’s a principle that she is sticking to - a conviction, and who am I to judge convictions?
Larissa is wonderful, witty and kind. She is someone to be cherished. She and I are so alike that I consider us “Different as Night and Day, but two sides of the same coin.” Where she is negative, I am positive. Where she is sarcastic, I am goofy. Where she is tough, I am impressionable. Where she overreacts, I am a voice of reason. But still, we’re extremely alike, and there is comfort in having a friend who thinks the same way that you do.
I love my Larissa to death and I wouldn’t want anyone else for all the world. ♥