Sisters by blood, best friends by choice

Friendship is something that you need to get through life. You need people you can lean on, you need a person to go to besides your parents. Siblings can be better friends then friends actually are. I learned at an early age that siblings fight and argue but in the end, they are most of the times better friends then they were in the beginning.

My sister and I have been best friends since day one. When my parents got divorced, I was too young to really remember them fighting but my sister remembers it. For years after they would argue over the stupidest things. Who got us on the weekend, wither or not we could go to our dad’s house on an extra day or who was picking who up. It got to a point where we didn’t want anything to do with our dad. Being young, we still were forced to go over when the court told us to but we would never go alone. We couldn’t be separated.

We had promised each other that no matter what happened with mom and dad, that we would always be together and be best friends till the end. She has taught me so many things in life, how to stand up for something you believe in, how to have a voice and most importantly, how to be able to trust someone. Through all the arguments of our parents, between them and my stepmom and dad, we would always promise the same thing over and over.

To this day we talk every day, even if we don’t see each other for weeks. She is my best friend and teaches me many different things. I don’t know what I would do without her throughout the journey of our lives. Keeping that promise is something that I plan on keeping for the rest of my life. She showed me what true friendship is.

Today my sister is 20 and I’m 17. We have never been closer and I think it is one of the best things that has happened to me. Our parents now get along, even though they really argued a lot in the beginning. It was something that was really hard to deal with because being a little kid, you just want your parents to be together and to be friends but when they argue and fight, it makes you see things a lot differently. Being best friends with my sister made growing up so much fun, we would always play together and be together, even when we were mad at each other. I do have other best friends but she is and was my very first best friend.