Heroes in my world: my BFF Seren

Every girl should have a best friend.  Someone they’ve known for years, some other girl that they can say has been with them through thick and through thin, through multiple boyfriends, through those tough times of life that honestly, no guy can really completely understand.  For me, that’s my friend Seren.

Seren and I met in 1989.  I can’t remember the exact month we met, so she was either 8 or 9, and I was either 9 or 10.  I do remember that if you talk to the right person, you may be able to find a VHS tape of us in a Christmas play at church that same year.  (Good luck finding one of the lucky people that owns a copy of said tape.)  I can honestly say that we’ve pretty much been best friends ever since.

As kids and sometimes teenagers, Seren and I had this habit of buying something after the other one did.  Purses, cell phones, shoes, you name it.  I’m not sure whether we happen to just have the same taste or we just wanted to compete with each other.  Maybe a little bit of both, honestly.  I honestly can’t even really explain it, but somehow we have just been there throughout the whole of each other’s lives, ever since that day in 1989.  We grew up hanging out at each other’s houses on Sunday afternoons (between church services) and having sleepovers.  We dealt with each other’s crushes and boyfriends.  And we totally fought like sisters when we were teenagers.

Then came college.  Somehow we managed to stay in touch even after graduating high school.  Seren started attending IUPUI in spring of 2001, and I started in the fall (if I remember correctly).  Because she switched majors and I stuck it out with the one I started with, we found ourselves graduating the same semester, from the same school.  One of the coolest things ever was to walk out to “Pomp and Circumstance” with my best friend of (at the time) 17 years.

Seren has seen more of my life than pretty much any of my current friends.  She has known me and seen me grow for the last 20+ years of my life.  She chose me as the maid of honor in her wedding, and should I get married, she will no doubt be in mine.  I can’t even describe what we’ve seen each other through.  Friends, relationships, boyfriends, love, hate, hurt, pain, joy… we’ve pretty much seen it all.  And although we pretty much live on opposite sides of town now and don’t see each other in person too often – we still manage to stay very much in touch and able to share each other’s lives.  In fact, we’re both working on getting our MBAs right now and are currently sharing in the pain of having little free time due to the burden of both a full-time job along with school.

If you can’t say that you’ve had a BFF (Best Friend Forever, for the uninformed) at least sometime in your life, that’s too bad.  I love mine and don’t know what I’d do without her.  I’m glad she’s been there for me through thick and thin for all these years.  Love you, bestie!