Here is my oath to you:

1. I promise to disagree with you often, love you always and respect whatever it is you decide.

2. I promise to tell you that he’s all wrong for you, but support you regardless

3. I promise to hold your hair back, even though it’s 9 am and you’ve been puking for the last eight hours and I don’t even know whose apartment we’re at.

4. I promise to take the fall for something you did – knowing full well that you’d do it for me in a heartbeat.

5. I promise to fight with you, to force you to step outside of your comfort zone.

6. I promise to laugh at you when you fall: down the stairs, at a party, on the sidewalk, on the catwalk. I promise to laugh so hard I actually start to pee a little.

7. I promise to tell you when you’re making a mistake – and then help you get out of it.

8. I promise to remind you, always, that things could be worse.

9. I promise never to show up empty-handed and to bring enough food and alcohol for the both of us.

10. I promise never to tell you that things will be all right because, honestly, I don’t know if they ever will be.

11. I promise to protect you from others – and sometimes even from yourself.

12. I promise to be there when you need me, to come running as fast as I can and to be with you in spirit, in person or on the phone, so you’re never experiencing the tough stuff alone.

13. I promise never to bite my tongue and always to tell you how I feel – especially about the heinous pink top and those hideous sequined pants.

14. I promise never to sugarcoat the tough stuff and always to tell you the truth, even if it’s the last thing that you want to hear.

15. I promise to stand up for you, stand up to you and stand with you, even when I have no clue what we’re standing for.

16. I promise always to be your right-hand man, your partner in crime, the yin to your yang, the Bert to your Ernie – no matter how many years it’s been since college or how long has passed since the last time we out together.

17. I promise never to stand idly by while a man who you love disrespects you.

18. I promise never to tell you not to do the stupid stuff we all know you’re going to regret eventually. Instead, I promise to do them with you and we can regret them later.

19. I promise never to assume you want to share that chocolate bar, that pint of ice cream or that jar of Nutella – so I’ll just bring two instead.

20. I promise to let you run off and lose yourself, find yourself, reinvent and reimagine yourself, but I promise never to let you get so far as to forget your way home.

21. I promise to make you want more, to make you reach for more, to make you want to do better than the shoes you’re standing in now — even when you don’t know what you want.

22. I promise to love you, unconditionally, through every high, low, peak and valley life takes us through.

Sincerely,

Your Best Friend- Wang Jackson.