One person I really miss is my tree Lizzie :(.
I remember when I met her in 8th grade and she was the silliest person ever. Soon, we were cheerleading together on a competitive all-star team. And after a sad turn of events for that team, we faded apart :(.
But our friendship didn't fail. This girl always had a thing for the colors brown and green and used to be a sneaker head. I love her through it all.
Weird as this sounds, I feel like she is a friend that I'm real with 100% of the time. If something is on my mind while I'm with her it will be said without a second thought and accepted no matter what. No matter how crazy, how random, how horrible, whatever. It was laid on the table and discussed between us. I'm not saying I'm fake around other people but I feel like who I'm with tends to determine when and how certain things come out slightly. With her It never felt like there had to be "the right moment"...it would just come out in the middle of anything.
Even though we didn't get to see the most of each other in the past 3 years, every time we did see each other we played catch up for hours. Surprisingly she actually knows everything about me too. Probably even more than I know about myself. I'll have to argue that my most memorable moment with her was when she came back from her summer program thing at Syracuse University the summer just before senior year. We had a long heart to heart about everything we missed out on truly talking about. As much as I wish we could have had these conversations as they events occurred it was a wonderful afternoon. It brought me back to when we would crash at her house in her living room and talk about random things and mess around with Tae Bow workout DVDs.
When it comes to Lizzie, I know I can count on her to talk to no matter how much time has gone by in between our last true conversations. I know our views on each other never really change on each other. I know I can expect a serious conversation ending on a positive and progressive note giving me the feeling that I can get up and do something about my problem.
When I look back at our best random times between going to Kings Plaza on random occasions to window shop, or being stalked by all of Scholars' while in Kings Plaza, doing random things at the spur of the moment, her dancing her butt off to "Ass & Tittys" in the Aviator gym, and of course her for real "ROFL" laugh where she is dead rolling on the floor laughing. I see some pretty genuine stuff going on back there and bringing us to today.
I know we won't let each other fade from our lives because our career goals are centered around the same ideas behind education and how to make it better and more accessible; especially in the public schools systems. Bold task? Yup! We can do whatever we set our minds to because Pandas and Trees will always go branch in paw.
We still need to hit up a shopping trip though. I can't wait until we can hang out again for reals so that we can talk and laugh about all the random things that occurred and make a powerful game plan for the future. She inspires me to be everything I can be and more. For that I am grateful to have a friend like her.
Silver, red, and white now and forever...BROOKLYN!
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