Happy happy birthday, Mary Trish!!! =)

Reposting from http://notsolittlewomen.blogspot.sg/2013/04/happy-birthday-mary-trish-grace.html

 

Once you've thrown up on someone, you have a bond that will last a lifetime. I think that's the secret to a lasting friendship. Haha! I still blame you for making me and Carmi finish an entire bottle of El Hombre Tequila, by the way. Blech. NEVER. AGAIN.

Now that THAT's out of the way...ahem...here comes the randomly put together (sort of) lovey foofey part. Brace yourself, Mary Trish.

There are people who momentarily hold a position of importance in one's life, but in the grand scheme of things are really just passers-by, and then there are the seemingly inconspicuous ones who just linger and hover in the background, blending into the context and reading your text messages while you're asleep, and demanding to know what your dad texted you. (Guess which category you fall into.)

I remember at some point during college or law school, we were in a cab on our way to Eastwood, sitting quietly in the back and staring out opposite windows, and it dawned on me that the best friends you can ever have are those you can be sit in comfortable silence with. There is a certain level of ease borne out of the lack of any inherent need to contextualize everything. Most things need not be said, and even from a literal ocean away, you can just sense that something's amiss, without needing to be told.

I could not be more thankful we were randomly thrown into Eliazo Hall's Room 305...even though you made some Cervinian think I was stalking him because you used my mIRC account to add him as a friend when I'd never even met him, you told a friend I didn't want to live with her and she ended up not talking to me for a looooooooong time, you attempted to drop out of law school in our first semester of law school to supposedly become a nurse, AND you converse with random animals in your sleep (and that's just the tip of THAT particular iceberg).

Here's to the past fourteen, and to more crazy years of friendship, Mary Trish. See you on Thursday. =)