hello lovelies, jaxyas here and welcome to our first post of 'Big Sister Advice'
this week we're talking friendship.
just a bit of a background, we've been friends since we were 9 years old and were put in the same class, but not until we were 11 years old where we became super close! we grew up together and treated each other like the sister we never had as both of us grew up with brothers which also led our families to grow close.
what was the other person like growing up?
jas: yas is always up to have fun! since she was young she was always daring and didn't really care what people thought about her unless it was someone she had a crush on + their friends, which made her the life of the party! she was and still is extremely loud, her voice will literally project across the room unless she's asked to be in front of a camera or speak in public. if anyone lived a rebellious teenage life, it would be yas but nonetheless, she stayed grounded (most of the time) and turned to me for everything.
yas: Jas is a real one. I don’t know how else to phrase it, but she really was my sister growing up (still is). She treats the people that she really cares about with so much love and protection. When growing up, she was quiet to those that she didn’t know, but if you knew her she was so friendly, jokey and very very sarcastic. She definitely found her light and opened up more when she got older, because now as you all can see she’s a damn queen.
best memory of each other growing up?
jas: there are too many but at the top of my head it would be our skype calls where we'd gossip about everything and everyone and eventually end up having a skype slumber party on a school night. one of our favorite things to do together, till this day, is arts and crafts and planning parties/hangouts/girls night. we're both very creative by nature which is why we clicked so well from day 1.
yas: there are waaaay too many memories, but I think the most touching memory, was the moment me and jas realised that we wanted the same future together. We spoke about starting a blog/YouTube since 2016, and to see that we have finally pushed ourselves to achieve our dreams, it really is special. We're both very ambitious individuals, which is why work well together.
how do you manage a long-distance friendship?
jas: communication is key and calling each other every other day is vital as well. it's very hard sometimes to get our schedules to line up but we plan a week in advance on the days we have to call to discuss jasxyas and if it's not about business, we don't even bring it up, so we try and call whenever we're free! time difference is a pain but usually, we come up with a reasonable time for both of us and always spend at least 2 hours on call.
yas: I'm not going to lie, it is hard, but because we both want to dedicate the time and space to call each other and have conversations is what makes it truly work. We share the same calendar, so we're always in touch with what each of us are doing in our lives and this way it's easier to organise and plan calls. We definitely keep friendship and business (jasxyas) separate.
have you ever gotten into an argument with each other?
jas: PLENTY OF TIMES! we've had 1 or 2 arguments that lead us to almost ending our friendship but it was definitely over something extremely petty and neither me or yas wanted to admit that we were wrong at that time. we've had arguments revolving around priorities over boys and friends, not keeping in touch and different perspectives on matters. however, we resolve these issues by taking a step back and giving each other some time to collect our thoughts and then have a DMC (deep meaningful conversation) and come out stronger than ever like the argument didn't even happen.
yas: "If you don't fight with your best friend, the friendship isn't real". I think this quote is the truthful thing ever. Jas and I, have had a lot of arguments, but at the end of the day we both know that we love and care for each other. The things we argue about are honestly so minor, but we just get too stubborn and in our head sometimes -- but that's chill because we ALWAYS resolve things, and it makes us stronger than ever!
we hope you gained a bit of an insight into our friendship and can kinda vision what we were like growing up, let us know any other questions you'd like us to answer because we would love to hear it from you!
lots of love,
jasxyas
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