Thursday 10 December 2015
Monday 7 December 2015
23 Promises Every Girl Should Make To Her Best Friends And Keep Forever
Whoever said that best friends were the chocolate chips of life was definitely onto something. They’re the sweetness, sprinkled in between the muck of life – they’re the cause for celebration and excitement; they’re with you, always, even when you’re sure you don’t need them (but you always do).
They’re tender and always in style. Best friends, like chocolate chips, never lose their secret touch — they always add a little something extrato the mix, a little something sweet. So it makes sense to treat them as synonymously as we do our favorite, timeless chocolate treats.
Best friends are… well, best friends are everything.
You always think you know how much you need and appreciate them, but then the thing happens to you that you’re not ready to handle alone and suddenly, swiftly and unapologetically, you realize just how life-saving a friendship with your favorite person really is.
We reserve a special type of intimacy for our best friends; we tell them everything without ever having to say a word. We share secrets, we swap stories – and sometimes, we look to them to reveal the things we’re most afraid to tell ourselves.
We spend our lives running into and out of our best friends’ arms. We live and die by the connections that we build with them. We find them in the wind, the trees, the sun.
We see their face in a stranger as we’re passing the Seine or feel the comfort of a phrase they’d use rolled off the tongue of a local out of breath and hiking up the Andes.
Though we might not always be physically with them, we are never spiritually, emotionally or mentally without them. We carry them everywhere, through everything.
5 Reasons Your Best Friend Is the Best Person to Travel With
1. There's no fighting over what to do because you have the same feelings about how you want to mix "doing things" and "doing nothing." You both go into any trips you plan with similar feelings about how much stuff you want to do and how much sitting in a beach chair while someone brings you margaritas you want to do. Planning your itinerary is always a question of when you'll do stuff, not what you'll do.
2. However, you don't have to do everything together. When you're traveling with your boyfriend, you basically never part company unless you're in a fight. But with your bestie, you feel totally fine splitting up for a few hours if you don't want to do the same thing one day. You really want to see if Zara is different in Paris, and Sally really wants to go to the Rodin Museum? Not a problem! You'll meet up in three hours at the Eiffel Tower and swap stories over macarons.
3. Planning and logistical stuff isn't stressful. If you both like to plan, then all your bookings are split evenly and basically every day leading up to your trip involves an email from one of you with another suggestion for somewhere to stay or a place to eat. If she's the organization queen, you just trust her and Venmo her immediately.
4. There's no arguing in general, really. You already know the few things you don't agree on and anticipate them ahead of time. Sure, you kind of cannot deal with the fact that she likes to get to the airport with 30 minutes to spare. But you know this, so you just meet at the airport and get there whatever time you want. Problem solved.
5. You don't mind sharing close quarters. When your family went on vacation to Spain, you found out just how small European hotel rooms are. Thankfully, sharing a room with your bestie is a lot better than sharing a room with your brother. You don't even need two beds! (But if you can get a two-bedroom Airbnb, no one's complaining.)
7 Fun Things To Do With Friends Without Spending Much!!!
1. A potluck dinner party. Host a dinner party and ask everyone to bring a dish to share. If you are not comfortable with cooking, maybe try and learn how to cook a new dish together with your friends.
2. Host a spa day. Give each other manicures. Try out new hairstyles. Make some facial masks or exfoliates using natural, at-home ingredients. Then drink mimosas.
3. Movie marathon. Log into Netflix and watch every episode of “Orange is the New Black.” Or do an ’80s movie marathon, watching “Pretty in Pink,” “The Breakfast Club” and all of our old favorites. Don’t have a Netflix membership? Get the free trial just for the marathon!
4. Pinterest party! You know all of those cool Pinterest crafts you say you’re going to do? Do them. At home one night with friends. Then make up some of those bacon-wrapped whatevers you’ve been dying to try!
5. Go to the park. Pack a picnic. Hang out. Watch people. Play on the swings.
6. Have an organization party. Set up a day of each weekend where you go to each of your friends’ houses and help them clean out a closet, a room, a garage, whatever. Serve drinks and food and trade stuff among yourselves.
7. Hold a yard sale. After all of that cleaning, why not hang out together and make some extra cash too?
Being friends is about sharing our lives with others. There are some aspects of our lives that require that we spend a lot of time together or a lot of writing to help convey our feelings. Other times sharing only a few words are more than adequate. It is not always the long conversation that conveys the deepest feelings. Sometimes, longer modes of expression may seem redundant and lacking in profundity. Putting just the right combination of words on paper in a succinct style may just hit the spot.
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