The people in my life

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Sometimes we take them for granted. The people who have been there for us when we were crumbling into pieces on the floor. The people that have listened to us when we needed to tell someone how we felt. The people who have encouraged us to carry on fighting because they've seen the good in us we were too blind to see. The people who have shared our happiness and our tears. The people whose shoulder we could lean and cry on when everything around us seemed to fall apart. The people who have forgiven us when we wronged them. The people who came back to us after we drifted apart. The people who brought new energy into our life and made us see things differently. The people we grew up with with and evolved with. The people who left us but were never too far away. The people we don't see everyday who think about us. The people who made us fall in love with ourselves. Yes, we sometimes take them for granted.

The same way we take our parents for granted. Our material possessions. The colour of our passports. The food we have on the table. The clothes we wear. The weather, the sky, the rain, the thunder, the birds, the trees, the leaves, the people that pass us by on the street...

I had food with friends this week-end, I had coffee with friends this week-end, I had silence with friends this week-end, I had talks with friends this week-end and I shared laughs with friends this week-end. And as I was savouring these wonderful moments, I got to thinking about how I should be grateful for the people in my life. Because the people in my life are my angels. They're the ones who believed in me when I didn't. They're my lifeline. They're my support group. They're the reason I am a better person!

Today I am thankful for the people in my life. The lifelong friends and the new friends, the ones who came into my life like tornadoes and shaken it all up, the ones that came in discreetly and live in it quietly, the ones who came and went, like passengers, leaving traces of their souls behind, the ones who were lost and now are found. Today I am thankful for all the people in my life.