I miss my mother too.,more then ever since life isn't working out as I thought it might......(too much Neptune in my chart causes all sorts of problems with wishful thinking all the time.).......
My mother WAS my best friend, as my husband said she was to HIM. But for me, I didn't realize it until she was no longer here by my side.
I truly don't think we ever lose those we love to this extent, but rather they (the part we knew and loved), are waiting on the other side, and will be there when we cross over. That "part" or aspect of their soul, that we knew & resonate with, will meld once again with us.
One of the last dreams I had of my mother we walked together, in the dream over a bridge......the one on earth where to get where she worked at the telephone Company, there was really a bridge to the main street.
I don't think we or she ever walked over it (she may have when she once or twice actually walked to work in a snowstorm because no busses were running back then, and she was so dedicated to helping the phone company back then....lol...that she actually would walk thru the blizzards when busses didn't run saying , "They need us......we can't let a snowstorm stop the calls you know".....
She was a Long Distance Operator back in the old days when you'd dial "O" for Operator and actually get someone on the line.
I know then , this bridge in my dream, was she & I and she used this symbol to say to me, she would be waiting and walk me over (to the other side)........
when my time is up in this life.