no matter how far you are, you're always right there...
A brief history of Lease and Mel:
I started at Christ the King elementary school in seventh grade. I wasn't popular... in fact, I had no friends. It really wasn't until eighth grade that I started to make some form of friends. It was in that year that I realized that I have a voice and hence therefore, I used it. I talked and talked and I didn't stop in fact. That's when it happened. The moment that would change my life forever (dramatic indeed)... I was moved to the other side of the classroom. This side of the room had the popular girls, the cutest boys and Lease was among them. First thing she asked me, "Do you want to move your desk next to mine?"
That was that. We were the only pair in a sea of rows. The teacher never said anything, she knew how happy we were. Everyone knew it.
Fast forward a decade.
Lease has grown into the vivacious beauty, with intangible smarts, insipid humour and a sense of her self - aspects that most young women only dream of having.
Clealry our friendship has had it's fair share of ups and downs. She knows my deep dark secrets and I, hers. We know one another's families and treat them as our own. We live the life of best friends. Which unfortunately requires an arguement or two. Whether over boys, or hotel rooms... whatever it was, is or will be, we've remained the best of friends. Before my sister was born, before Carolann was around, Lease was the sister that I always wanted, never had and could only dream of.
However, now... now we come to a crossroads. As we all anticipate our pending graduations, as we wait for our future... Lease has finally realized hers. She's been accepted to Nippising University in North Bay. WOW.
Here she is, right in front of me. The epitome of a best friend, and now she's leaving. I have but a mere few months left with her just blocks away. The selfish part of me wants to say, "Fuck this! Lease, you have to stay here! you can't go! you can't fuckin' go all the way to North Bay! are you nuts?!?!" however, when look at what is happening to her. I can't help but realize that my selfishness is just that. It's my idea of what should happen, to make me happy.
Dammit!
So then I sit back, depressed at the thought that she's leaving for so far away. But then, some words enter my mind. Cam wrote an email to me a little while ago, it had nothing to do with this, but it has everything to do with it likewise. The words went like this: "No matter how far you are, you're always right there"
It goes with Lease too. I know that no matter how far away she is, whether four blocks away or six hours or two weeks or whatever, she'll be there. Always.
To maintain this position, I have to keep reminding myself that we've been through it all together. I can't really explain what "it all" is... other than just that. However, I know that it's been everything in the world to me to have her here, and now to see my best friend achieve what she's wanted since eighth grade, well. What's a sister to think? other than "Condrabulations Lease"
From inside jokes to horrifying secrets, the clichee of tears and fears, laughter of uncontrollable measure. We've travelled to see the world (or at least the beach and some crazy cities), we've drank to the point of annihilation, we've celebrated triumphs and overcome insecurities. And now, because we've had one another through all this, we've become the women we are today.
Which, in my opinion, are the most fabulous women of them all.
So, to my Lease, condrabulations. I love you. Thanks for a decade of moments never forgotten.
xoxo,
Mel
I started at Christ the King elementary school in seventh grade. I wasn't popular... in fact, I had no friends. It really wasn't until eighth grade that I started to make some form of friends. It was in that year that I realized that I have a voice and hence therefore, I used it. I talked and talked and I didn't stop in fact. That's when it happened. The moment that would change my life forever (dramatic indeed)... I was moved to the other side of the classroom. This side of the room had the popular girls, the cutest boys and Lease was among them. First thing she asked me, "Do you want to move your desk next to mine?"
That was that. We were the only pair in a sea of rows. The teacher never said anything, she knew how happy we were. Everyone knew it.
Fast forward a decade.
Lease has grown into the vivacious beauty, with intangible smarts, insipid humour and a sense of her self - aspects that most young women only dream of having.
Clealry our friendship has had it's fair share of ups and downs. She knows my deep dark secrets and I, hers. We know one another's families and treat them as our own. We live the life of best friends. Which unfortunately requires an arguement or two. Whether over boys, or hotel rooms... whatever it was, is or will be, we've remained the best of friends. Before my sister was born, before Carolann was around, Lease was the sister that I always wanted, never had and could only dream of.
However, now... now we come to a crossroads. As we all anticipate our pending graduations, as we wait for our future... Lease has finally realized hers. She's been accepted to Nippising University in North Bay. WOW.
Here she is, right in front of me. The epitome of a best friend, and now she's leaving. I have but a mere few months left with her just blocks away. The selfish part of me wants to say, "Fuck this! Lease, you have to stay here! you can't go! you can't fuckin' go all the way to North Bay! are you nuts?!?!" however, when look at what is happening to her. I can't help but realize that my selfishness is just that. It's my idea of what should happen, to make me happy.
Dammit!
So then I sit back, depressed at the thought that she's leaving for so far away. But then, some words enter my mind. Cam wrote an email to me a little while ago, it had nothing to do with this, but it has everything to do with it likewise. The words went like this: "No matter how far you are, you're always right there"
It goes with Lease too. I know that no matter how far away she is, whether four blocks away or six hours or two weeks or whatever, she'll be there. Always.
To maintain this position, I have to keep reminding myself that we've been through it all together. I can't really explain what "it all" is... other than just that. However, I know that it's been everything in the world to me to have her here, and now to see my best friend achieve what she's wanted since eighth grade, well. What's a sister to think? other than "Condrabulations Lease"
From inside jokes to horrifying secrets, the clichee of tears and fears, laughter of uncontrollable measure. We've travelled to see the world (or at least the beach and some crazy cities), we've drank to the point of annihilation, we've celebrated triumphs and overcome insecurities. And now, because we've had one another through all this, we've become the women we are today.
Which, in my opinion, are the most fabulous women of them all.
So, to my Lease, condrabulations. I love you. Thanks for a decade of moments never forgotten.
xoxo,
Mel