Beauty and the Belle

I would have said a lot of things about Belle's friendship and mine but fourteen years of it just cannot be summed up into words.

She doesn't know this but I knew that I have a best friend for life when she saw me on the first day of college in my baggy jeans and Sidney Sheldon book. She was the first one who smiled at me and eased her way to make chika. Most of all, she saw me beyond my guise of a book and the irony of the baggy jeans-- a girl scared and anxious in a new environment, wanting to fit in. She saw me beyond that facade the first time. In more ways, she has that power to read me more than I do myself. And with that, I have a best friend I am proud to call mine.

All I can really say is that, in this life, one just cannot survive without a best friend. Going through its harsh complexities alone is just so sad.

A best friend makes you sane, keeps you in perspective when yours seem to sway. I am financially challenged growing up but I am proud to say I am rich in real friends. And to have a best friend like Belle all these years, I know that I am so blessed.

You and I are so different in more ways than one but similar in trying to make ourselves be better persons by helping each other. We may not see each other all the time but we have never left each other behind.

Thank you for fighting some of my battles for me. Do you know that my ex fears you more than anyone in my circle? hahah.. Thank you for all the craziness, the thoughts, our card exchange in the bookstore (where we don't have to shed cash just to show we care), for the hugs and the kind words when I need them most, for introducing me to FRIENDS and Pugad Baboy, for the sleepless nights we talk about anything, for making my family yours, for making my friends your friends, for giving me space when I need to and without asking, for letting your parents adopt me haha, for accepting my being burara, for the drinking sessions gone astray and going to ReEd tipsy, for being harsh and frank when I am such a pain in the ass, for being so supportive with me and Lito, for the 14years of friendship, for sticking by me all these years (even when our friends come and go, we are both inseparable).. thank you, thank you...

I love you, bespren. Thank you for being a powerful force in my life. You affect me, even though you may not know it that much but the person that you are has helped me become the person that I am now. For that, I will be forever grateful.

I am always here for you, too. Happy happy birthday! Mwahs!


PS mao ra ni ako gift. hope you'll like it hehehe mamawi ra ko