Thread by @Banzaimeow, [IMPORTANT THREAD]I prefer not to do shoutouts, so you guys shouldn't expect [...]

[IMPORTANT THREAD]
I prefer not to do shoutouts, so you guys shouldn& #39;t expect me to do one, let alone birthday shoutouts. But, this one goes out to someone really special to me. Someone I am able to put a lot of trust into and can say anything to. LITERALLY ANYTHING. (1/18)

This birthday shoutout goes out to one of my greatest friends, if not THE greatest, @DamienKova. I& #39;ve known him for about 4 or so years now, and I just wanna say how beyond happy I am to have him be a part of my life for all that time.

Damien and me first met on Tumblr,- (2/18)

-and I was going to get into roleplaying on that site. He was one of few people who inspired me to actually get to doing it (because I was anxious to say anything on that site for some reason). Some time after that, we ended up sharing certain mutual interests, and our- (3/18)

-friendship had kicked off from there. Over time, we both had grown to enjoy talking to each other, so we ended up doing it more often. I was honestly really enjoying the time I spent with him, and I personally think he was too.

Yes, we& #39;ve had our "ups and downs" in our- (4/18)

-relationship, but every pair of friends or couples, etc, deal with that, so this was probably something I had to get used to.

But, I& #39;m getting ahead of myself. This isn& #39;t why I treasure Damien so much.

We had met sometime around the last few months of my senior year- (5/18)

-in high school, which I was depressed for a good amount of. Not just from the stress, but because I wasn& #39;t the most socially active person.

I had friends growing up. I always did. But, I always ended up getting kind of sad when I see that they& #39;re spending so much more- (6/18)

-time with others and were enjoying said time with them more than they were with me. It felt as if people had taken my friends from me, because said friends of mine rarely ever talked to me anyway. Eventually, I would just stop talking to them as a whole because of it- (7/18)

-since they clearly had other friends that they liked more than they liked me. (Trust me, I practically KNEW by then that they probably didn& #39;t want to talk to me, at least not as much as they did for certain others.)

I often have these same thoughts throughout my life,- (8/18)

-and they often put me in a REALLY depressed state.

Because I never really wanted to try and take one& #39;s friend away from him or anything. All I& #39;ve ever wanted in my life was a friend or two. Someone who, at the very least, could put up with me on a daily basis in our- (9/18)

-friendship. That& #39;s all my dorky self ever wanted. (And let& #39;s be real, I& #39;m pretty dorky. And maybe kind of a loser.)

To my surprise at the time, Damien wasn& #39;t like those other friends of mine at all. He actually enjoyed spending time talking to me on a daily basis, even- (10/18)

-though he had other friends that he surely could& #39;ve been talking to otherwise. Eventually, in what was arguably one of the lower points of our friendship, I had opened up to him about these problems of mine and how I kind of gave up on having friends anymore in high- (11/18)

-school, but why was I depressed?

That& #39;s when it hit me.

I was feeling so depressed BECAUSE I was losing my friends. I was always beyond afraid of losing them. Because it happened so much and so often that I started growing attached to them a little too easily as the- (12/18)

-years went by. When I finally opened up to him about this, he actually took it in stride and gave me some meaningful advice on it. He even was understandable about everything I said. I kid you not, I was literally in tears when I was reading all of what he told me,- (13/18)

-because it was at that point that I truly realized that...

I had found one.

After all these years, I had finally found a real friend. Someone who actually put some trust in me, who could give me some advice, and generally just put up with me on a daily basis. (14/18)

To this day, my friendship with him is closer than it ever was before. It& #39;s so easy at this point for us to say literally ANYTHING to one another with little to no hesitation. And I gotta say, with how my only two relationship went down, as well as some emotional- (15/18)

-breakdowns I& #39;ve had over the years, it was honestly a very relieving feeling to know that there was actually someone that WANTED to be my friend, maybe even more than that.

Damien is a very special person to me, and I& #39;ll ALWAYS treasure the time I spent with him, even- (16/18)

-if we somehow end up not being friends anymore sometime in the future (I hope to God that day never comes though).

So, this thread goes out not only as a birthday shoutout to him, but also as a little message to anyone who has ever shared a similar experience with me. (17/18)

So, thank you, Damien. Thank you so much.

Thank you for being such a trustworthy person.

Thank you for putting up with me to this day after all these years.

Thank you for being one of the greatest things to happen in my life.

Most of all, have a happy birthday.

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