This is dedicated to my dear friends. I love you all. I wouldn't get through each day without
you. I hope you know who you all are. If you don't, then I'll just have to try harder to make
sure you know. I love you and thank you for all you do. Thanks for always being there.
Life is not fair. Never was, never will be. Some people get all they want, others get nothing.
There is no rhyme or reason to life. Things can going fine and suddenly everything gets taken
from you. There will always be someone that doesn't like you. They will do anything to make
your life miserable. Then you have the people you just can't please. Nothing you do will ever
be good enough for them. You could cure every illness on earth, end hunger and homelessness
and bring about world peace. Still won't make them happy. That's just the normal everyday
stuff you deal with in life. There is so much more you will have to deal with.
People you love will die. Nothing you can do about it. It will break your heart and leave a huge
hole in your life that only they can fill. Time will ease the pain but it never fully goes away. You
just can't replace people. Things can be replaced, but people are special and each one is special.
You will also lose friends. You may just drift apart. Or worse, they hurt and betray you. And that
is a special pain that hurts like nothing else. You will be tempted to put up walls or turn away from
others. But you can't. When you do that, you miss out on meeting wonderful people. Don't let a
few idiots block you from joy. Friends make this life bearable. They make us laugh, dry our tears
and pick us up when we fall. Or they drag us kicking and screaming from the bed back into the
world. They share our joy and our pain as we share theirs. A handful of good friends is the greatest
treasure a person can have. They sit up with you until three in the morning when your heart has
been broken. They challenge you to become better and try new things. They make you see
yourself the way they see you, not as you see yourself. They call you on your hang-ups and hold
you firmly when all you want to do is shut down or run. Friends make your life worth living. They
are the laughter in the middle of the pain, the safe harbor in the storm, the kind word when all you
hear are insults and lies. They are the warm hugs and shoulder to lean on. And they are the slap
across your face or the kick in the ass you need when you don't know you need it.
We all come to bad patches in our lives. Those times when everything seems to be going wrong.
When you don't know if you will make it to tomorrow of if you even want to. There are times
when we just are not strong enough to bear it alone. We will try but the load will be too much.
And we will do our best to hide it from everyone. But its is so good to have friends that just know
you well enough to know something is wrong. They know your "I'm fine" means "I need someone
right now". They can see it in your eyes, hear it in your voice or tell it in the way you type. Because
true friends don't even have to see you to know something is wrong. They just know. When they
are not around you feel that loss deeply. So hold those friends close and never let them doubt that
you care for them. Fight to keep them in your life. Because without them, life is empty.
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