I have known my best friend for most of my life. He and I are extremely similar- movies, music, games, etc are almost all in common. We learned to ride horses, motorcycles, and drive together.
He taught me how to shoot a gun, clean a fish, and took me hunting the first time I went.
I taught him ...pretty much everything.
Before he met me he had not once read a non-school related book. That he could remember, anyway. Now his own personal library (which is at my house, I might add) has well over a thousand books.
Before he met me, his music taste was whatever his parents were listening to. Now his itunes account has over 99 straight days of music, spanning all genres.
Because of me, he has discipline. We quit smoking together. Quit one day, and never smoked again.
He once called me at three in the morning on a day I had to go to work and told me his car was broke down. In Dallas. I live in the middle of Oklahoma. Without even thinking about it, I sent my boss a text telling him I had a family emergency and would not be at work today and went to get him.
When he joined the army and went through basic, we played chess by way of mail. I took a three day leave from work to go pick him up when he graduated. We've got plans to travel the world when he finishes his military duties, which will not be for another four years.
He is closer to me than my brother. I know without a doubt that he has got my back, whether he agrees with me or not. When shit goes down, I've always got someone on my side.
Means a lot to me.
.....God, that was mushy. In my defense, I'm fairly drunk and it's 3:39am. Time to go to sleep now. 'Night, folks.