Contemplations of Friendship

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -Anais Nin

So over the last few weeks I have been slowed down enough in life to actually have the time to contemplate the last year. I have had an amazing year and have continued to knock off a few more goals off my Top 25 in Life list. I have also in the last few days been able to realize how exactly thankful I am for certain people in my life. People, who had I not met them, would not have made me be the person I am, take chances that I normally would have brushed off, or just touch my heart and soul. I am lucky enough to be able to say that I have (or had) these people in my life.

I have been blessed to have people in my life who (prepare for the corny run on sentence):

understand your idiosyncrasies and stories behind them, can tell you that you look beautiful as always when you are standing in line at Caribou and feel absolutely terrible, will answer the phone at 3am for any reason, stay up for 24-48 hours with you in the hospital after they worked a 12 hour shift, will sit with you when you are incredibly ill and advocate for your care, tell you that you are not a terrible person after a loved one uses you as their personal emotional punching bag, make fun of you when you are doped up on narcotics or anytime for that matter, remind you that you are wonderful and tell you not to change, bring you dinner and coffee at the workplace when you desperately need it, can read your mind even when you don't know what you want or need, know something's wrong when you have everyone else fooled, understand and enable your caffeine addictions, have sit down "family" dinners or lunches with, talk in unasyn with and make random people think you are related, have seen you during an emotional breakdown and cry along with you, give some of the best hugs, act absolutely retarded in public without the slightest care, tell you to continue to "sling the mud on the wall," encourage you when everything points in the opposite direction, tell you they love you and mean it, suffer from insanity with you, are your partners in crime, encourage you to take chances and spread your wings, people who you are totally lost without, they celebrate your imperfections, thank you for making a difference in their life (and them in yours), understand the emotional stress you carry at work/school/whatever, and those you could not, without a doubt, live without.

On Grey's anatomy , Dr. Yang tells Meredith, "You are my person." These aforementioned people are that; they are "the" people- for if they were not in my life, my life would not be as blessed and rich as it is and I am thankful to have them and be beginning a new year with them.