Thank You, MK!

"Ya see wha-wha happened is..." I met this girl. I was a freshman in a new school with ALL new people and I knew not a person who might even consider being friends with me. In about three of my classes I look over across the classroom and notice this girl in those select classes. I notice she has this close-knit community of friends who must have all went to middle school and even elementary before together. I was intimidated to even approach them.

I had just switched school systems from the small, quietly secluded and sheltered Nashville Catholic Parochial system to MNPS(Metro-Nashville Public Schools). And the gap of culture that I was branching seemed to gap not just a few miles but nearly another dimension. Because although I hated the kids who acted up in class, I was not prepared for the kids who act up in class with priors with court dates and court appointed anger management. 

This girl that I notice before me, although she cares a certain attitude, seems to be un-phased by the surrounding student body. Now I would soon find out her name, Megan, but I wouldn't really get to know her for another two years.

This is now, my dork of a best friend, Megan Kristen Neal. We really met our junior year in our 1 of 7 classes together. She surprised me for being the first person to take a true unbiased interest in me from the inception of this friendship. Across the next two years we would go to movies, work at the same place, go to prom together and both watch each other go to college. She is the most exclusively significant person in my life. We would explore discussion topics with each other that would normally seem so cut out for school that even we were surprised in each other for the amount of interest and personality we put into them for each other. This is one simple reason why Megan is significant to me. She can sit with me and have a conversation about anything and bring only herself in the conversation. This is increasingly difficult in people our age, and more rare in a friendship across the gender gap. 

Megan would introduce me to new music(always a win in my book), and she would push me to reach new heights unlike even my parents could. She understands me better than probably any person alive. This simple feat is why I owe her more than I can express in words. She has watched me go through so much, and watched what I am capable and still wears the title of my best-friend proudly across her chest. She's my everyday superhero.