Mascara will be a waste. Holding hands helps.

   I'm sure by this point I sound like a broken record blogging about friendship but it's a topic on my heart right now. Friendships are relationships, especially at this stage in life when girlfriends will be there long after [ex] boyfriends do their dirty work and peace. The "best" friendships are not the girls who never fight, have disagreements, or even weather periods of weirdness. They have all that and more, but what makes them the "best" is that they work through it. Molly came into my life as my little and is now one of my closest friends. And we have been through it all. There was Fall/Christmas of 2010 when things got so bad they culminated into a heated fb message confrontation, yes a FACEBOOK MESSAGE fight. And you know what, even in the midst of not talking we still sent each other Christmas cards. Things were still rocky for a while there and although she didn't agree with the path I was taking with my life she still stood by me and when it all fell apart, who did I call? We've come a VERY long way these past three years. Friday morning I got the unfortunate text that her grandmother had passed. If I could have driven to her apartment right then I would have even though I'm not sure what I could have done to make it hurt any less; after all she showed up at my door with a hug and the most amazing cupcakes ever when my grandfather passed junior year. And although I'm in Nashville and she's in Memphis right now she knows I'm thinking of her and sending love to her and her family. Simply texting eachother about people and the crazy things they do and document on social media the past two days have kept us laughing, and when the tears started flowing Saturday night we texted through that too. THAT is what friendship is. Along with laughing at girls falling down the steps at Kappa Sig, saving each other from shackers gone wrong, running extra super fast like almost died after because an ex was spotted, or simply wandering around Target for hours buying cards we'll just end up sending each other. So I ask you to keep Molly and the Albin family in your thoughts today.