The Moon met the Sun

    My mother is usually right, when it comes to advice. I hate that fact, but I've gotten used to it. The most prominent proof of this fact was the simple sentence she uttered when I was in the fifth grade. She had come to pick me up for a doctors appointment and couldn't find me on the playground. She asked a random little blonde girl if she knew where I was, and that girl helped her locate me. On the way to the car my mother stated "You should be friends with that girl. She seems like a nice girl." I didn't think she was right, I'll admit. "That girl" and I were very different. We hung out in different crowds, played different games, hardly ever crossed each others paths on the playground. But, I started talking to her any way. Did I mention my mother gives the best advice?
    That girl has been my rock from that time on. She is my anchor, the only thing that kept me still when I wanted to get carried away with the tides. She told me when enough was enough. She told me when certain people weren't right for me. She has saved me from more danger than one person should ever have to save another. She is constantly saving me from myself.
    Her family is my family, and vice versa. But, she is so much more than that. She's like the twin I wasn't born with. We have this innate ability to know when one needs the other. We form the same opinion on something, without even talking to the other about it. We change together. Like yin and yang, I bring her out and she reigns me in. I don't know what I would do without her.
    Sometimes, like tonight, I feel like I'm crashing in on myself. Like there is no answer to my problem and nothing I can do to solve anything. Then she says something so simple, that I've heard a million times a million other ways. For some reason, it clicks. She knows just what to say and just how to say it and my planets are all aligned again. No more apocalypse. No more tears. Just laughter.. and funnel cake. 

 I could never express what she means to me, or how blessed I am to have her. "Sometimes, soul mates aren't people you marry or date or whatever. Sometimes they're just someone who has a part of you and you have a part of them and you're just, you know, made for each other." -Stephanie