My best friend and I have been in a long distance friendship for 11 years! Seems crazy but even though we are 1,300 miles away from each other we would drop what we are doing if we receive an S.O.S text!
Here’s 10 ways we make sure to keep our friendship alive..
1. Phone Calls
If I am in a complete emergency I know my long distance BFF (LDBFF) is just a phone call away. She knows me better than I know myself half the time I just need to hear someone say, “You can do it!” to make me feel better.
2. Face Time/Skype
When a phone call is just not good enough, technology comes to the rescue! When we first moved into our “big girl” apartments, we couldn’t wait to Face Time and give each other a tour! Its definitely a way to feel like you’re still part of your best friend’s life.
3. Visit each other
My LDBFF and I try to see each other every year. We had to skip a year or two but we make one thing for sure, we take turns. Each year one of us attempts to visits the other in their “homeland” and become tourist on their own city!
4. Plan a vacation together
There is nothing more fun than creating memories with your best friend! If you have visited each other numerous times, plan a trip. Go somewhere both of you have never been to and have an adventure!
5. Social Media
If I haven’t heard from my LDBFF I know I can turn to Snap Chat and see what she is up too. If there are not post I know there’s something wrong and a phone call is a must.
6. Have friendship memorabilia
My LDBFF and I received best friend necklaces from our parents when we were in kindergarten (that was 16 years ago!) and we still have them to this day. I know when I wear my “Best Friends” necklace a little part of her is with me throughout the day.
7. Pictures!
Whenever my LDBFF and I are together we take hundreds of pictures! We cant help that we are excited to see each other and need to make up for the time we were apart. Photos since we were 5 years old are always framed in my room. People always ask if that’s my sister in the photo and I proceed to say “pretty much!”
8. Watch a show together
If one of us is currently binge watching a show on Netflix that is too good, we always tell the other. She is watching “How I Met Your Mother” because of my recommendation and I started “Grey’s Anatomy.” Whenever we talk we update each other on where we are in the series and have about an hour-long convo about fictional characters.
9. Send a card!
I get it, no one writes letters anymore. But whether it is my birthday or Christmas, I can look forward to one of the cliché hallmark card in my mailbox. It’s a little tradition my LDBFF and I have had and I have a box full of card to prove it.
10. Make friends with their friends
Just because you are no longer together doesn’t mean you cannot make new friends. I like to think of it as my friend circle growing a little bigger. My best friend is basically the same person as I am, so I easily get along with her friends. When we video chat, I get to meet some of them and when I visit that awkward “I don’t know how to act in front of this person” is not a problem. You are comfortable with them and get to enjoy the time together.
I miss my LDBFF so much! It would be so much easier if we still lived within a block from each other but life happens. Just because we are miles apart we don’t let it get to us and just look forward to the next adventure. There’s a reason she has continued to stay in your life.