Friends and Why They Make My Life

There are many types of friends.

I apologize for my moment of sounding like the author of a children's book.

However, that statement is still very true.

My friends mean the world to me, whether they know it or not. There are the friends you don't talk to much but you know you'd be lost without them, the friends you disagree with all the time but you love them all the same, the ones you talk to everyday and would be miserable without, and the ones that you never want to lose.

Some friends fit more than one of those categories. And, of course, those are not the only categories. They're just some basic types that come to mind when I think of my friends.

I love each and every one of them. Whether I talk to them much or not, see them all the time or not, or hang out with them a lot or not, I love them.

In all honesty, I would be completely lost without my friends.

I don't really know how to put what I want to say into words. It's too complex of a feeling. However, a good feeling. One that I wouldn't trade for the world.

I have the kind of friends that mean more to me than life itself. I could easily take a bullet for nearly any one of my friends. There are the kind that I tell everything because I know they won't judge or get mad. There are the kind I sometimes disagree with and we joke in a somewhat odd way, but I love them. There are the kind who always look out for me and tell me the truth even when it may hurt, the kind I could never be mad at. Some tell me everything and their trust means more to me than they know. There are some that are always there to help me through the suckish times and know more about me than anyone else. They may even know more about me than I do. There are the ones who are leaving me, perhaps for college, that it will be difficult to get by without, and I pray that we keep in touch, because you've changed me for the better and I could never thank you enough for everything you've given me and I could never tell you enough times how much I love you.

I could never possibly list all the kinds of friends I have. But I consider myself truly blessed to have them. I am the luckiest person in the world to have such caring friends who look out for me.

If you're reading right now, know this:

I love you more than I can say. Your friendship means more to me than you will ever know. I never want to lose touch with any of you. You make my life better than I ever believed it could be. I don't quite know how to say it, but when I say I love you, I mean it more than I mean anything else I could ever say to anyone. Know that you mean more to me than perhaps anything else and if I said I would die without you, I would. Emotionally of course, but it's perhaps more painful than anything I will ever have to endure.

So, to my friends:

I love you.