Today is a special day. It’s my best buddy Nick’s birthday and it’s also our 1 year anniversary of our friendship. Sometimes people come into our lives for a reason. We don’t always get to know what that reason is, but we know they’re meant to be there.

Nick is someone who was absolutely meant to be not only my friend, but really like my family. See Nick and I actually met when we went out on a date. We hit it off and went on a few more. I enjoyed his company, & he thought I was really nice, actually maybe a little “too nice”, (I bought him a pair of new sheets after knowing him two weeks because he ripped his other pair and you just can’t sleep on ripped sheets!!) At the end of the day, we found ourselves really just enjoying hanging out together.

We decided not to date but to just be “good friends”. It was an awesome decision. The best decision really. He has become one of my most trusted confidants, consigliere, giver of advice, and all around favorite people to hang out with.

Nick is a fellow lover of life but he has had his own trials just as I’ve had mine. 2007 was a big year for him like it was for me, so neither of us think it’s a coincidence that we’ve come in to each other’s lives 10 years later.

We had a conversation not long ago about the concept of “soul circles”. It’s an idea that in each life we live there are certain souls who link together in an almost familial way. Sometimes they are together for the purpose of paying off debts from lifetimes past and sometimes they just stick together because there is such a deep connection there, the souls can’t bear to separate. I have been blessed to find this connection with a few people in my lifetime and I know with utmost certainty that Nick is one of them. He is without a doubt one of the “GOOD ONES”.

#bestiesfortheresties #happybirthdayfriend #fromMeredithtoo

“I’ll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Years Day”

-Taylor Swift