THE BEST FRIEND DILEMMA

I need a best friend who I can be my lazy-bum self with. Someone who I can be comfortable with and just act like the lazy potato that I am. Most of my friends who are girls are too busy taking selfies and curling their hair and stalking Kylie Jenner on Instagram. It's exhausting to try and act interested in who is dating who and which exotic place they visited last summer. I literally want to have burping contests with my best friend and play Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, and battle in Pokemon with. Or a person who will actually sit down and watch Supernatural with me and disagree that Heroes was an awesome show. (I thought Heroes was amazing, others beg to differ).

How about a best friend who will also act like your big brother? I grew up in a family where I'm the eldest with zero brothers. I've always wanted one. Someone who will say "Who am I going to beat up now?" whenever I cry and feel heartbroken. Just someone protective, not jealous. There's a difference. And when I make a mistake, he'd tell me I did the wrong thing and make me apologize.

And a friend who wont make up useless rumors and judgements about me and doesn't care about gossip. I used to love gossip, but then I turned 13. Most people I know never grew out of their "gossip" stage and it's absolutely tiring to listen to. I want to talk about my feelings after Dean Winchester died for the hundredth time and debate about which band is the best of all time. Not about that girl in class who wears too much make up and that new pop song everone is listening to.

But I know that it's hard to find a guy best friend because one day one might fall inlove with the other. And that's complicated. I just wish that a boy will genuinely come up to me and talk about interesting things with me because he wants me to be his friend. Or make fun of me because he knows that I'm really a dork. I don't need a boy to fall in love with me or the other way around. It's too exhausting and complicated. If you've read Anna and the French Kiss, you'd know what I'm talking about.

I'm tired of the remarks that people say about a boy being best friends with a girl isn't real and possible. It's possible if your intention is to just be there for each other like you're both a family. It's possible if you try and not let your feelings get the better of you. So is it really possible? I often think that only a rare set of people have the ability to do this. To just genuinely be best friends and nothing more at first. It's all but a mystery if you'll be best friends for ages or strangers once again.

There's nothing more affectionate than the love and acceptance of a friend. And I honestly think that everyone has it in them to just be friends with the opposite gender. I just felt like voicing this topic out because it's so controversial to be friends with a guy. Sometimes, we forget that a Lizzie and Gordo friendship really does exist.