To The Best Friend I Don't See Everyday...

There is a picture of us sitting,you are laughing,I am standing next to you, my arms slung across your shoulder, smiling at the camera. In that picture everything was easy we both were happy and this picture reminds me every time how much I miss you every hour every minute of the day. I haven't told you this but everytime I look at this photo my heart aches. I miss the nights we'd would stay up too late telling secrets. Eating ice creamfrom the carton ,watching some stupid Netflix show but talking about every good part and having to rewind it back. I miss the good old days when we hung out at your place after playing gully cricket during our vacations. Your mum making us soothing drinks to get away with the scorching heat.I miss the days when we studied up the nights together shedding our blood and tears to at least pass the college exams. You know me more than anyone has, you bore me more than anyone can.

Sometimes it feels like you are half a world away from me and honestly I would do anything to have you here, right now, laughing at my stupid jokes, showing you the text messages from my crush, sipping beer. There are miles between us. Airplane rides, Road trips hours on a bus, Gas and ticketsand Wheels on a highway keeping you from easily walking through my front door. It has been 25 years that I bear your nonsensical jokes everyday,25 years of creating nuisance,25 years of joy, laughter and tears and not a single thing has changed except that we are apart now by the distance. And sometimes it breaks my heart that when you call me crying, I can only reassure you through the phone. That when I need your shoulder, all I can have is a voicemail. That when what we really need is a big best friend hug, we will have to settlelong text messages that almost do the job. You are on my mind when I take my first bite of pizza and think of how we use to get a largeone and shamelessly eat every bite. You are on my mind when I am drunk and wish you were sitting next to me. You are on my mind more than you know, and every time I think of you, I am reminded how lucky I am. And how wonderful it is to have someone who no matter the distance, no matter the time apart , no matter how far we are physically from another will never stop being my best friend.

And even if I don't see you everyday,
I promise that won't change a thing because we are miles but not hearts apart.