11.25 Relationship - Your Person

Bestest Friend and I are doing a blog project. Each day we write a blog post on a pre-determined theme chosen by a random noun generator. The theme for the twenty-fifth day of the month is "Relationship."

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Do you have a person? You know, the person you can call when you have a dumb question or complaint? The person who you know will bail you out of jail? The person you may not see regularly, but is your number one text or phone friend? I feel like everybody should have one to three people like this in their life.

I have Dr. BB, of course, but honestly I don't go to him with dumb questions because he's super smart and I know he'll judge me. And he's certainly not my number one text or phone friend. He's obviously My Person and I spend more time with him than anyone else in the world and we've officially lived together longer than we have with anyone else (like, including our families of birth! - how crazy is that?!), but I have three other contenders.

Definitely My Dog. No contest. 

One is Bestest Friend. I can call her and know she will make me laugh. If I ask a question, she will answer with deepest authority, even if she has no idea. Her ability to make up reasonable sounding explanations on the spot can not be beat. When we haven't seen each other for months and months, it doesn't matter. It's as if we just saw each other yesterday. When we go on vacation together, we know that we need to leave a couple of hours in the day for silent napping and/or reading. She thought I was  bitch when we first met. She was probably right.

One in TJC. She has spent the most nights in our guest room of everyone and we actually call it TJC's room. She is the kindest person I know, even though she is constantly disappointed by humanity. She's a brilliant writer and thinker and sometimes when I'm in a room with her and Dr. BB, I wonder how in the world I came to be surrounded by people whose brains work at a level I'll never understand. We met in an honors section of a class called American Culture Studies and Dr. Joe, if you're out there, we still talk about your drawing about how suburbs were created. We also took several philosophy classes together and Dr. Stuart, if you're out there, we still talk about how absolutely charming you were. TJC is definitely my number one texting friend.

One is my cousin J. She and I grew up sending letters back and forth. She sometimes calls me and we share what little family gossip we have and commiserate on the fact that our parents don't tell us anything. She and I are direct opposites (like, she and Bestest Friend share a lot of personality traits), but somehow when we get together, it's like we're thirteen again. J would definitely bail me out of jail.

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Who is Your Person?