Best Friend Paragraph Generator

Happy birthday, [Name]. I am not going to list your qualities today, I am going to name one thing from the last twelve months: [detail]. You are probably the only person who thinks that was nothing special.

Happy birthday. I know this year has been a hard one for you, so I am not wishing you anything enormous — only that today turns out to be a light day.

I know this is not the year you had pictured. You do not have to ring anybody today, or be pleased about anything, or put a face on it. If the day turns out to be too much, I will simply try again tomorrow.

You turn [number] today, and I have not got any younger either, so I will spare us both the jokes about it. Instead: I hope you get celebrated today the way you normally celebrate everybody else.

Happy birthday, [Name]. No long paragraph, just the one sentence I never otherwise say to you: I still give you credit for [detail].

All day today people are going to tell you what you are to everybody else. I would rather name something that is nobody's but yours: [detail]. That is what I would raise a glass to tonight if I were you.

I am leaving out the wish for the best year of your life. I am wishing you one with less explaining in it, and more people asking how you actually are.

Happy birthday, [Name]. I am glad you exist. Your birthday has only this much to do with it: today I get to say so without explaining myself.

Nothing has happened, nothing is wrong — I just saw [detail] and thought of you. There is nothing more behind it than that.

It is a Tuesday and there is no occasion. I wanted to write to you anyway and say that I have kept hold of [detail].

I was telling somebody about [detail] today and realised I have never actually told you this: I talk about you a lot.

No reason, no question, no reply needed. I only hope today is one of the days where you like your life.

I have just driven past [place], and you know exactly why I am telling you.

Today is not a special day and I am writing anyway. In case you are currently thinking you have not been getting enough done: from the outside it looks completely different. I wanted somebody to say that before you had to go asking.

I am writing with nothing attached, because I noticed we only seem to get in touch about arrangements now. This is not an arrangement.

[Name], you turned up in my head in the supermarket today, because a song we once played far too often was on. Ten seconds of memory, and I am forwarding them to you.

What I said on [date] was not okay, and I am not going to make it smaller than it was. I am sorry. You do not have to reply to this.

I do not know whether this comes back, and I do not want to leave you feeling I am expecting an answer about it. I only wanted you to know that I am not absent because I am angry.

I think less about the thing itself now than about what it made visible between us. I would like to talk about that at some point. Not today, and not before you want to yourself.

I am not yet at a point where I can be fine about this. I would rather tell you that than leave you guessing. I need more time, and I will let you know when I have had it.

I am not angry, but I am also not back where we were before. What happened did not feel like a one-off to me, and I do not want to pretend that it was.

It has been [number] weeks, and I find that I miss you without anything about the matter itself having changed for me. Both of those are true at once, and I wanted you to have heard it at least.

Not a big conversation, one question: are you all right? You do not have to write me anything about the rest of it.

If you do not want contact just now, that is all right, and I am not going to send this three more times. I wanted this one message to go out so that you know the door stays open from my side without you having to walk through it.

We have known each other [number] years, and in all that time I have told you what that means to me maybe twice. Here is the third time: with you I have never once had to work out what to say before I ring.

We have both changed several times over and stayed anyway. That astonishes me more than the length of it ever has.

You knew me back when I was [number], and you still do not treat me as though I were that person. Not many people manage both.

You are still the first person I ring when something happens. That stopped being a habit a long time ago. I decide on it again every single time.

By now we have more years together than apart, and what I think of first with you is [detail] from last week.

I have always assumed you know what you mean to me, because it has been obvious for such a long time. Assumed is not the same as said, though, so here it is written out: you are the reason I was not on my own through the bad years.

There are people you keep because you like them and people you keep because they know you. You have been both for so long that I had started taking it for the normal state of things.

In [number] years you have talked me out of things twice and into something once, and you were right all three times. I wanted that on the record somewhere.

I am not going to apologise for the gap, because when we do that we only do it at each other and then the message is over. Instead: [detail].

I am coming to [place] on [date]. That is not a “sometime soon” — the day is already fixed. Tell me whether it works for you.

What I genuinely miss about the distance is the incidental part: being able to tell you things too small to be worth writing down. So here they are, written down on purpose anyway: [detail].

We have now lived apart for longer than we ever lived in the same town, and it still works. That says more about us than any address ever did.

You are probably reading this while I am asleep. Answer whenever it suits you — I have got used to the delay, and it bothers me a great deal less than the idea of us not writing at all.

Right now I do not know what your flat looks like, who your neighbours are, or where you do your shopping on a Saturday. Tell me one of those at some point, so that I can picture you again.

We did not manage it this year either, and I am not going to talk that up. For next year I am proposing [date] — you say yes, or you say a different day.

Most of the time I do not notice the distance at all. Then I run into [detail] and it is right back. Today was one of those days, which is why you are getting this.

Years ago you told me once that you were afraid of being too much. I never forgot it, and I have not thought it was true on a single day since.

When things get difficult I work out what you would say and then go with that. It only struck me recently that I do it. You are the voice I think in.

When I was at my worst you turned up every day until it was over. You spared me the clever lines, and I do not think you know to this day that it is what got me through.

I still have the message you sent me on [date]. The part I kept it for is the time on it. You were awake because I was awake.

There is one thing I have never thanked you for, because it was small enough that you have probably forgotten it: [detail]. For me it was the day something turned around.

I do not have a favourite photograph of us, and I still know exactly what your face does when you are deciding not to say something. You do not get to know people that well by accident.

You do something you probably do not know you do: you wait until everybody else has finished talking and then say the one sentence that is true. I copy it now, and nobody here knows where I picked it up.

[detail] — you did that when nobody was watching and when there was nothing in it for you. That is why I believe every word you say to me.