NoJoMo 9 – Best Friends and Time Travel

Challenge # 9 – Write an entry about your bestest friend: What they mean to you, the relationship you share, the good and the ugly

My best friend is Jessica.  I have known her since 2001.  Its funny, because growing up I totally would have thought that your best friend is someone you have known the longest. But really your best friend is someone that you connect with and truly would do anything for.  I have had other best friends, that faded to friends, to contacts that I used to be close with… While those people and our situation makes me a little sad, it also reminds me that people grow and change. Just as relationships will do.

Jessica and I met in College. To be honest, when I first met her I didn’t like her. She seemed judgemental and snobbish.  But the first time I actually hung out with her, was when I started to see that I was being to quick to judge her.  After some time of just being friends and hanging out, She was looking to move into a house, but needed roomies. So Steve and I decided we would move in with her, in her house. She put a down payment on a house and we were going to move into it in 2 months.  Something changed, and we all ended up moving into the place in Dublin that was nice, but pricey. This apartment was near my job, and near friends at the time, so it worked… but after that I ended up moving into her house with her. Since I didn’t have the $$ to move to an apartment yet.  We lived together, in her house,  for just under a year. I ended up moving out.. I mostly did this to save our friendship.  When we live together at the apartment things were fine, but at her house, it was slightly different. So I knew if I didn’t move at that time we would end up not being as close anymore.  It was a good decision then.

Jessica was there for me when I lost my brother.. Her and Krystal and Rob all helped out, coming to the funeral and just being there. Jessica taught me some lessons on spending $$ that you didn’t have and the consequences. Just in general I learned things from her and she has learned from me.  We tell each other everything. Even if its stuff we don’t want to hear. I think the reason we are as close as we are is because we don’t yell and freak out at each other we talk. I as would she.. never go after the others man (but I should be more afraid of her then me 😉 ) I love Jessica and hope that the years remain to keep us close.

Challenge #9.1 – If you could go back and pick a time in your life to go back to and relive when would it be and why? Would you Change it? What made this time special or bad?

To be honest… I really don’t think I would change anything about my past. Sure I love to bring my brother back, but the thing is, it wasn’t my actions or lack there of that caused that to happen. It was just something that happened.  With out that loss, I really feel I would not have the love for life and love that I have now.  I would like to go back to my junior year of highschool… Mostly only to tell myself to CONTINUE to stay away from fast food.  I got comfortable with David… we at out ALL the time, being the skinnier girl I was then and the fact that I had a boyfriend I loved… I didn’t think about the consequences.  But also if that didn’t work I would have traveled back to Age range 19-22 College time. I would have just wanted to live in a time when I was less stressed and more into enjoying life.