Ode to April

Today I met up with my college best friend April at Sanibel, FL with our families.  This little island is very well known for the beaches made of shells.  They are everywhere you look-big and small in their glory.  It gave me a chance to actually talk with April.  Although we are best friends and in the same major, we don't get to see each other that often because of student teaching. 

I don't know if I can truly describe April on paper.  She is the most spunky person I've ever met in my life.  She has such high ambitions but at the same time lives her life day to day while being very highly organized.  She craves adventure whether it's stealing my mattress and hiding it in an elevator or flying to a foreign country with a housemate that she despises.  I love my friend because of all of the hidden qualities that most people don't get to see from her right away. 

While April and I have had our fair share of fights, we are always there for one another.  She wasn't a fan of my last relationship for many reasons and she never hid it.  That's only something a true friend will do.  She fought with me through the muck of the depression last semester and I can honestly say that if she saved my life one night without even knowing it.  The most beautiful part of our friendship is that we may not talk every day or even every week.  Although we may not, I feel as close to her as ever.  I'm proud to call her my friend and to know that she has helped me to become a strong and independent person.  I hope that I've done the same for her.  The last  four years of college wouldn't have been the same without this very special and unique April in my life.  I know right now she may be reading this and hate how sentimental I'm being.  I'm betting that she even teared up.  (She hates getting emotion so this means I'm doing a good job hehe)

I can't wait to see what she accomplishes in life.  She will make an amazing 5th grade teacher and that school will be lucky to have her.  It's hard for me to believe that after graduation our lives will go separate ways.  We will likely be in different states and have different plans.  That won't matter.  We'll always stay in touch somehow.  Deep down, I will always carry around that little ray of April sunshine with me wherever I go.