Kate Bailey

Convincing yourself that any and every subtweet, even from the mildest of acquaintances, is somehow about you.

Ignoring texts for hours and days at a time not because you hate people, but because you just really don’t want to have to lie about what you’re doing to get out of having to go out.

For being the only people in the world to not judge how much you ate on any given night/fast food/pizza run.

You always feel as though you’re being overlooked by your romantic interest of choice for that one person who’s just a little bit better in all these random, little ways.

“What are you doing?” “Nothing… I’m just sitting at home… but like, because I want to.”

You don’t bicker like siblings as much as you do like an old married couple (but like family, nonetheless.)

Even after spending just a day apart, someone texts: “Oh my god I have SO MUCH TO TELL YOU.”

For making school feel like home.

Their beauty isn’t the only reason you love them, and that should go without saying. It may have been the reason you were first attracted to them, but it’s certainly not the reason you’ve stayed with them this long.

It doesn’t matter how long they’ve actually been in your life, it feels like it’s been forever.

Loving Target with the very flame of your soul and calling it Targé is a fiscally responsible and heartwarming way to buy another lacy sundress you don’t need, and that’s a life everyone deserves to live now and again (or every weekend — you do you hons).

You’re not hung up on the numbers.