10 whole years...

My last blog was a thank you to all the people who have helped me. There is a certain person I know who i didn't mention in my blog, because to be totally honest, there wasn't enough room in that blog for all the thank you's i owe her.

When i was 5 years old, I met a girl who affected my life greatly...we met and instantly were friends. She was   boisterous, and strong, and chirpy and all the things a 5 year old girl should be. Me on the other hand, I was shy, quiet and feeble. She was the person who shaped me, and made me the way i am today. We were close, the best of friends, and not a thing has changed to this day. We complete eachother, i become a different person when i'm with her. We're the opposite but the same, and i can't explain my love for her.

She never had an easy life, things happened to her the whole way through, but her strong willed attitude towards life battled her through everything, and made her the able-bodied person she is today.

She is the girl that made me smile, no matter what. She made me realise that crying at every tiny thing is not going to help anything or anyone, and it's better to try and smile through everything.

The day she left to move to Northern Ireland I cried the whole night, I didn't sleep a wink. I went to school the next week and everybody tried to comfort me, i was having none of it, not without my best friend by my side. Eventually, i made more friends, and had a couple of close friends, but nobody could take the place of her in my heart.

It was in year 3 that she left, the next time i saw her was in year 9! And 6 years later, we got on like a house on fire, still! We have the kind of friendship where you don't have to be in each others shadows all the time to still be friends. By the end of the day, we'd already had a go at a girl and dressed up as slags together...My best friend was back!

I went to go stay at her house the other week for a week, and i miss her already. I had the best time, and it was nice to just get away from my life for a while, and be with her, like old times.

I have so much to thank her for, starting with all the times as a child she looked after me and easily made me smile again. She shaped me to be the person i am today, rather than some weedy quiet child. She inspired me to sing, by making me constantly sing. She made me a happy person, rather than a sad one, and i can share anything with her, every secret.

So, Sophie Greenshields, thank you for the past 10 years, thank you for every day, thank you for being my best friend, thank you for being there every time i call, thank you for EVERY SECOND! <3