Let Me Tell You About My Best Friend!

"Friendship doubles joy and halves grief." -Egypt

This Egyptian saying couldn't be any more true. With all the hardships that a single human being can go through in a lifetime, we would be lost without friends. Even in the past 16 years of my life, I've learned that.

My best friend, Sarah, has always been someone that could make me laugh. I've known her since kindegarden, and we've been friends since the first grade. I've always loved going over to her house, and nothing is boring when she's around, so I guess you could say she "doubles my joy".

But she "halves my grief" as well. Not too long ago, just the end of last school year, actually, I was going through a kind of rough time... and going over to Sarah's house seemed to cure my broken heart. She made me laugh for the first time, and she talked with me for hours on end. I don't know if I'd have healed from that event as easily if I didn't have her there with me.

You know you have a true friend when they can make you eat poptarts (which I HATE) after not eating in days.

At the time, it was really hard for me, but because of my best friend, I'm now able to look back, and just... smile because it happened.