This month with Jess Corcoran - April 2014

I was strolling through the supermarket on a last minute outfit mission when I began to think about what I was going to share with you this month. I was nearly telling you all about the actual hunt of trying to find a dress the day before a wedding, but it was in the changing rooms when I was struck with the need of a second opinion about the coordinating top and shorts I was trying on that I decided clearly what I wanted to write about.

I needed my best friends opinion on the outfit, but instead of waiting outside the changing room refusing to hang up the clothes I'd finished trying on like she has for many years previously, she was instead in a uni lecture somewhere in Nottingham. It was in this sudden and urgent need for my best friend in which I mentally made a note to ask her when she was next coming home... (I ask on average every four days because we've had that partner in crime vibe, 'joined at the hip' type of relationship for the past decade.) So much so that once, at the end of a week long residential holiday some other girls we had made friends with had to ask me “which one I was?” despite the fact we bare no major physical or even personality resemblance to each other.

However we are somewhat similar to each other because over the years she undoubtedly has been the biggest influence in my life, and I, in return have been the biggest in hers. And its rather odd but entirely fantastic. We have that whole thing were I can say something like “Don't you think that advert is inappropriate?”and she's get why I think it and often agrees on every single level possible. I think our friendship is amazing, and I miss her physical presence in my life on a daily basis. Be it dress shopping, or a coffee shop visit, as much as I can text/call/tweet/Facebook her, nothing beats her annoying me senseless on a Saturday night while were eating egg custard and watching casualty. I find it so great, and if you believe in the whole concept, well, were definitely soul mates.

The best thing about it though? She's just one of the superbly awesome, wonderful people I have in my life. Naturally, the majority of my friendship circle currently is people I know from school and sixth form but its wonderful that its expanding all of the time. Without even knowing it, there are potential friends around literally every corner, at every train station, in every gallery and book shop.

There is a woman I know through instagram who I've never met but we share so many interests, her bio talks about red lipstick, the beatles and liverpool. She loves photography and writes a blog too. We chat occasionally through comments on each others photos and its really nice. And the other week I met a girl on the make up course I'm currently doing and we just clicked. We bonded over a happy meal (we both think BBQ sauce is a must!) and we wouldn't couldn't have stopped talking if we'd have tried. Then there was the guy on the bus that was nice to me when I squealed cause a lady bird randomly flew on my arm and I really ain't insect lover. It was a few words and a smile but hey, for a little bit of the bus ride I had a new friend.

I'm not saying that life is all rosy and that making new friends is super easy because its anything but however, it is possible to make new acquaintances and friends because most of us all interact with people on daily basis. I struggled in Manchester because although I had a course linking me to people, it seemed the only thing. These days you don't even need to leave the house to interaction with like minded people though, start up any device connected to the internet and you can join in a conversation about almost anything you like. I'm kind of blown away by this idea, and wanted to share it with you too.

There are so many people all over the world that could potentially one day become your best friend and you don't even know it yet. So this month I'm all about friends and all the different type of friendship you can have. So here's too them all! To the ones that are here for life, to the ones you never see but love just the same, and even the ones in which the friendships is just a fleeting moment of a shared laugh or borrowed deodorant in the woman's toilets!

Now show this page to whoever your sitting next too...you never know...you may make a new friend!?