Doing This One Small Thing Has Made It Possible for Me to Maintain a 25-Year Friendship
Photo by Kelly Dawson
When I was in the fourth grade, a girl named Daniella asked me if I wanted to be her friend. We were on the playground at recess, and my response ended up becoming a life-altering choice: I said yes. Since then, we went through middle school and high school together, made sure to meet up during our holiday breaks in college, and then supported our mutual plans into adulthood.
Daniella is the type of friend who makes you feel like everything you say or do matters — she truly listens when people talk and walks around rooms making sure everyone is having a good time. “Do you need another drink?” she said to someone at her own rehearsal dinner a few years back, and then ran off to get it. “No, we have time, I can do your hair,” she calmly said to me right before her wedding the next day, because curling has always been her strong suit which meant that it never had to be mine.
