54 Things You Really Need To Thank Your Best Friend For
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1. Telling you that you have food/lipstick on your teeth at that party, when nobody else did.
2. Holding your hair when you puked, in sickness or in drunkenness.
3. Letting you borrow clothes, make up, shoes, and accessories.
4. Not letting you eat another bucket of ice of cream after your break up, and dragging you to that party instead.
5. Hating everyone you hate.
6. Letting your future boyfriends know the consequences of breaking your heart.
7. Implementing those consequences, when the jerk does hurt you.
8. Choosing sisters over misters, in the event of common crushes.
9. Being okay with getting phone calls at the weirdest times about the weirdest things.
10. Planning the marriage of your little brother to her little sister.
11. Shopping! For patiently standing outside the changing rooms as you try 30 outfits until she approves of ‘the one’ that’s perfect for your dinner date.
12. For helping you find the right bra. The one that shows enough cleavage but no bulges!
13. For booking waxing appointments for you when you were too busy to realize you have started to resemble Taylor Lautner. From New Moon. In his werewolf form.
14. Letting you raid her fridge whenever you show up.
15. Hearing you talk about the same guy for hours. Never complaining. Not even once.
16. Letting you cry about the same guy for hours and for being there with a box of tissues, or more.
17. Putting eye-liner for you in a moving vehicle, with the precision of a surgeon.
18. Telling you to focus on your career over your personal life, which is already a mess.
19. Helping you meet your last minute deadline on assignments, even if she didn’t understand a word of it.
20. Helping you plan your dream wedding.
21. Always being your back up roommate/therapist/bodyguard/nurse.
22. Taking your phone away when you’ve had too much to drink and are likely to have the urge to contact unwanted men from your past.
23. Buying pregnancy tests for you.
24. Holding her breath while you take the test.
25. The ladies room at all clubs and hotels wouldn’t be ladies room without her.
26. Always ordering two French fries. Even when you say you’re not hungry she kinda knows you’ll eat anyway.
27. For being your finest critique and your biggest supporter, that’s a difficult balance to maintain but she does it so well.
28. For taking 100% pride, unadulterated with not even a hint of jealousy, in all your achievements.
29. For being your Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda, all in one!
30. Pre-discussing every single text you send to your crush.
31. For prioritizing you over all her other friends.
32. Telling you to stop hogging for a few days and hit the gym instead.
33. Then telling you to stop obsessing over your weight and eat properly instead.
34. Waking you up before exams.
35. Making a tinder profile for you as a joke.
36. And when the time comes that you actually start using it, always being there to reject profiles on your behalf.
37. For already having a speech written in her head for your wedding.
38. Being there to help you spend your first paycheck.
39. Organizing your surprise birthday party, even if keeping a secret from you kills her.
40. Being the constant lab rat to your cooking experiments.
41. Singing songs with you in the car, even when she has a sore throat and sounds like Khal Drogo from Game Of Thrones.
42. Introducing you to all the eligible bachelors in her boyfriend’s group.
43. Privacy? What privacy?
44. Dressing up together, and then spending the evening in your bed watching Pretty Woman.
45. For making random pacts with you, such as the pact to work out, the pact to take a road trip together, the pact to stop pouting in pictures, the pact to throw out your padded bras because you’re rebelling against the culture that forces women to think they look should perfect all the time.
46. Then kinda regretting these pacts.
47. But sticking to them anyway cause you made them together.
48. Being the calm one when you’re freaking out about big things in life, like your first job interview, or your missed period, or a random pimple showing up before a date.
49. Calculating your body types together and agreeing with you that you’re an ‘hourglass’ regardless of you appearing ‘pear-shaped’ to the rest of the human population.
50. Calculating how much 7 inches really are, after your first hook up.
51. Then calmly telling you that size doesn’t matter.
52. Uploading embarrassing pictures and statuses cause she has known your password since Facebook was invented.
53. Not needing a guy to say, “That’s my girl” when he’s with his friends, cause she does it anyway.
54. Always saving you a seat next to her in school buses, classes, movies, life.
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