District Magazine February 2015 | Page 30

Dating Your bff By, Alayna of The Girl Who Does Everything One girl’s five reasons to date your best friend. Speaking from experience, dating your guy best friend is the best! Although it took me way too long to realize that I had feelings for my guy best friend, I’m so glad I finally did. I am so oblivious sometimes, it’s ridiculous! I am definitely a list maker of sorts so I decided to think about why my relationship with my best friend is better than everyone else’s relationship (yes, better than everyone else’s). Here are some reasons why dating my “guy best friend” is so awesome. o I can actually be myself around him because we have been close friends for so long. There are countless things I can say and do around him that I would never be able to around or with anyone else. There are times when he is the only one who sees me without makeup or hears me screech every single song from Frozen at the top of my lungs (and he joins in, too!) N1 o He is my “sarcastic soul mate.” Sarcasm is one of my many talents, so it’s great to have someone join me on my sarcasm. It’s the best thing ever share a sense of humor with someone. Who else is going to be the brunt of all my sarcastic comments and then totally bounce back with an even more clever remark? That’s what it’s like to have a “sarcastic soul mate.” N2 o Inside jokes. Enough said. I think it’s entirely possible for us to carry an incredibly long conversation composed completely of inside jokes that have been accumulated over the years. Inside jokes are some of the greatest things about having a best friend. When other people hear them they think