With A Little Help From My Friends

I just want to take a minute and write about friendship. I love my friends. I could go on about how I really appreciate the friends who were super consistent and always there for me with the whole you-know-who-you-are speech, but I think that defeats the purpose. Everyone has "friends," but I count myself so incredibly blessed to have actual friends. People that I can trust and just be myself, even if "myself" is a little weird and out of place and perhaps a little ambitious. People I can stay up and out with until 1:30 am watching dumb movies and having conversations about sleepwalking with their moms. I thank God for the friends that I can call and just cry with. I mean really cry, and not feel obligated to hold back.

But out of all these people that I love in my life, there is one person that I have known for years now. We don't see or really talk as often as we'd like because it's just so hard to find opportunities to, but without her, I'm not entirely sure if I'd be who I am today, complete with all my quirks and flaws. You know that your best friend is your best friend when you can sit in silence, or do nothing for an extended period of time, and not feel weird about it. There are few people that I can do nothing with and that time of nothing is more important to me than it would be if we had gone and had a night on the town. She's my best friend, I love her, and I'm going to miss her when we part ways this fall.

I encourage anyone reading this to thank the people in your life that have been good to you. Because chances are, you don't deserve them. I don't deserve the good people in my life but I'm so selfish that I wouldn't trade them for anything. Ever. My mom, my siblings, and my step-father are the best out of all because somehow they deal with me 24/7. I love them for that. And all of my unrelated friends are incredible, too.

You don't need a national holiday or a birthday to make the people around you aware of how important they are. And it's never too late to change your perspective from selfishness to gratefulness.

Thanks for the read.