Follow-up to Squad

I thank many friends, and even healthy acquaintances for everything they’ve taught me this year.

How to be patient, steady, and remined me of the many forms of love that exist in life.

How to continue showing respect for one another’s boundaries. To give them the time they need to heal from the battles they can’t verbalize their frustrations about. For giving the time that I needed to do the same.

I thank my friends for reminding me how my progress is recognized. Knowing how to reach out and give me a message I didn’t know I needed. Also making them aware how I’m both thankful, and that I needed it.

I also thank them for times where I needed a fire lit under me to move into what I’ve wanted and needed for years. Doesn’t matter if it’s indirectly, through DMs, or straight to my face. What better way to show love than fight for another’s future the way one has fought for their own?

What better way to show love back than to receive their word, stick with it, and do the same for others?

We come into this world learning how to make and keep connections that match our comforts. Those comforts are allowed to change with time and experience within and outside the places our ideas of friendship were birthed.

Because of that, not all friendships are meant to last. The healthy ones that do can be matched with ones that began even this year. There may be those moments of anxiety about which ones are a reason, season, or lifetime. Still, whatever time is meant to be made with them, lessons will always exist and deserve to be cherished.

Here’s to more years to all of that 🙂

D.F.