long lost, S

have you ever heard the story where someone stumbles across another person, that one person, who they never saw coming? the one they didn't even know they needed because until they came along they thought all the people they already had in their lives were all that was needed...until they weren't. not without that person included in the mix?

well for me, that's savanna

savanna, sav, SASSY

the girl, I never saw coming...no, not even with her full blown attitude and attention drawing tendencies

the friend I never knew I needed until I had her become such an essential part in and to my life, that I could not imagine not knowing her or having her be apart of all the small and big things

sav is my most unconventional friend.

you see, her and I are alike in certain small ways that inevitably bring us closer in ways that we can both appreciate and cherish when it comes to our friendship.

yet - we are so incredibly different in other ways that it brings out the best (and ok I'll be honest, maybe sometimes the worst (and most fun)) ways possible.

we keep each other on our toes.

we encourage each other to be and do that much more, for ourselves.

we understand the grey parts of each others lives through all the black, white and bullshit filled parts of it - even when we might not understand those parts for ourselves when it comes to our own lives.

we pick each other up.

hold each others hands.

roll our eyes.

laugh until we can't feel our faces.

hug it out.

or even just, say nothing.

all when we need it most...because sometimes, you get lucky enough to have a friendship where what you need and what the other person needs from you, are the same things.

so even though

I wasn't expecting her

I didn't know there was someone missing in my life

we are sometimes too stubborn for our own good

we are sometimes so different

I feel as if

she came into my life right when I needed it the most - so I could have such a dependable friendship in my current life now to hold on to

she was a missing piece I hadn't even noticed, until she made me feel a little less broken and a little more whole and a lot more beautiful inside and out

she too means the best, and does everything out of a deep rooted love

she brings out parts of me that I at times didn't know were there - through different realities, expectations, ideas and approaches that we can still relate to due to the similar experiences and feelings we have both had to endure in both pleasant and difficult ways

I feel as if,

in the short few years that I have grown to know and love savanna, she has become more like a sister to me than just a near and dear friend

living in an opposite parallel of each other, miraculously crossing paths to create a friendship

one I wouldn't trade, for anything