"Hey - Thanks for just being you"

Sometimes, the most simple of sentences can say the most. This is a clip from one of me and my best friends from high school's favorite movies Love Actually. I love it because of the simplicity of the message he is trying to send. Maybe the messages that mean the most don't always have to be complicated.

What would you think if you received a random text message from your best friend from high school? What if that message said, "Hey- thanks for just being you"?

In high school I had 3 best friends - Caroline, JP and Peyton. Once getting to college, I realized that I pretty much had the idyllic high school experience. We never fought or gossiped about each other. All we did was have an amazing time for 4 years. Unfortunately, after graduation, we all ended up going in completely different directions for college.

*This was me and Caroline junior year of high school. I knew we would be best friends forever when she insisted on dressing up as a penguin during Homecoming Week.

*Peyton and JP - Something I always have admired Peyton for is her ability to have anyone give her a piggy-back ride. Its quite impressive. And JP is just plain awesome. He's Peruvian, loves soccer and we are both fully accepting of our mutual addiction to Surin.

Caroline goes to Oregon, Peyton is at Auburn, and lucky for me JP is here at Bama (but I don't get to see him nearly as much as I would like to cause he is always studying for his MCAT).

So I decided to text the 3 people who have completely made me into the person I have become... and here they are.

When I first got their responses, I was a little disappointed for some reason. So I slept on it - and now that I am re-reading them, I think they are perfect.

Peyton has always been the uplifting one. She has the most open heart - it actually wouldn't surprise me if she had sent this same message to someone before.

Caroline is my soul-sister. She is all over the place just like me - I think in the message she got the surface "thank you" but knows that if I ever sent something like that and meant it, something was probably actually going wrong in my life and she wants to get to the bottom of it.

And JP, he's the problem solver. He always has an open ear to all the shit going on in my life and helps me to sort it out... so he was probably waiting for me to get all emotional before he commented.

I'm really happy I did this though. I miss my best friends so much. Its been 3 years since I've seen Caroline and 2 years since I have seen Peyton. Sometimes I get so frustrated with technology because we think we are still "in touch" with people because of how quick and easy it is to communicate. But it makes me so sad to think that because I haven't really taken the time to send more than a text or quick Facebook message, I really have no clue what is going on in their lives.

But before going, I would like to include one last clip- simply because it is my favorite part of the movie. I aspire to have dance moves like this. Practice makes perfect!