8 Things Only Your BFF Gets About You

8 Things Only Your BFF Gets About You ©iStock/MilosStankovic

Best friends communicate on a wavelength that outsiders will never understand. Countless hours spent together talking nonstop and doing weird things forms a bond that even the most competent chemist cannot comprehend. Your understanding of one another makes perfect sense and no sense at the same time, but it just works. The general population may “understand” some things about you, but there are other things that only your incomparable best friend gets.

  1. Your sense of humor. Inside jokes. Inside jokes out the wazoo. You can bring up something completely irrelevant in the middle of a conversation, something that happened years ago, and your best friend will know exactly what you’re talking about. She’ll likely remember all the details as to how that particular joke was born, as well. She understands what stimulates your giggle receptors on a deeply disturbing level and she makes it her life’s mission to make you laugh until you become incontinent.
  2. Your mood. It doesn’t take her long to figure out exactly what kind of day you had just by looking at you. Even if the two of you are just texting back and forth, she can tell if something is wrong immediately. She’s so in tune with your mood, you feel like she’s part of your actual soul. But not in a creepy way.
  3. Your alcohol limitations. You guys have logged many hours of drinking together. From all that practice, your best friend knows exactly when to forcibly cut you off when you’re drinking in public. She might find your shenanigans hilarious, but she doesn’t want you to make an ass out of yourself. When you start exhibiting your telltale signs of “obliterated,” your bestie swoops in like a concerned/judgmental parent and gets your drunken butt away from the bar.
  4. Your strange little obsessions. You enjoy weird things. This is a fact that your best friend knows well. She supports your obsessions to the fullest extent and turns them into gifts on your birthday, holidays, and whenever the hell she feels like it. She keeps a meticulous mental list of all the things you like and becomes an expert in all your quirks. You could fill a museum with all of the awesome things she has found for you over the years, and her deep understanding of who you are makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
  5. Your facial expressions. Even if you’re displaying your best poker face in an awkward situation, your best friend can see right through it. She can read you like a novel with 72-point font and any attempt to mask your true feelings will be futile. With one glance, your best friend can tell exactly what you’re thinking, how pissed off you are and approximately how many minutes it will be before you resort to drastic measures to end the awkwardness.
  6. Your taste in movies. She knows you love your violent action movies, but she doesn’t think it’s odd that you’re still in love with Disney movies from the ’90s. In fact, she’s the same way. The two of you can quote all the classics with alarming accuracy and you don’t give a damn who thinks it’s childish or unusual. The nonbelievers can go perish in a fiery hang gliding accident. Disney for life.
  7. Your laziness. Your best friend understands that “I already took my pants off” is a perfectly valid excuse to not leave your apartment that night. She accepts your laziness because she knows it isn’t destructive-it’s just part of your personality (and the fact that it takes a substantial amount of effort to force yourself back into your pants at the end of the day).
  8. Your body. You can tell your best friend things about your body that you’re too ashamed to tell anyone else because you don’t give two sh*ts about grossing her out. And, you get a sick thrill out of the look on her face when you indulge in some TMI. She knows all the gruesome details about every organ in your body. It’s very possible she knows more than your doctor ever will. This is not a bad thing.
Lauren Clark is a writer and news curator based in Denver, Colorado with bylines here on Bolde and at Inside.com. While she’s vehemently anti-social media, you can find her on LinkedIn.
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