Life Essential

Number One: 

Sometimes I get really really really happy. To the point where I can actually feel a swell of being really happy bubbling up and its impossible to squelch. It’s both absolutely wonderful and oddly debilitating, because when you’re that incredibly happy its hard to do anything except smile and make high pitched noises and maybe kick your feet. Like an opposite tantrum, being on the swings, and dancing to the scissor sisters. 

This has happened to me three times in the last week, and I’m beginning to think I might have a problem. The very best problem in the whole entire world.

Number Two:

I’m pretty sure I would hate having a sister. I don’t like girls, especially inescapable ones, that cling, and are small. That sounds like the worst nightmare.

But somehow I’ve managed to make the most incredible girlfriends (all the while tightly grasping onto my distaste for girls). Each and every one of the important girls in my life is NOTHING like this ‘girls idea’ I have and avoid. They’re all the most unique and wonderful people, and even as a set of amazing stand out people they differ entirely from each other. 

I’m not sure it’s really possible for there to be this many spectacular women. And I’m really confused how I get to be lucky enough to know them all.

On top of that, I think of all these very best girlfriends that I have as sisters. Some of them are younger and some older, and some both depending on who’s helping out who at that instant. And I tell them all my secrets. And they tell me about boys, and goals, and their values, and teach me things. Some of them I talk to less, and have less to talk about with but I think they’re always going to somehow be family. Others I might as well be literally glued to seeing as we spend that much time together anyways. And some of them don’t approve of or understand everything I do and I think they still love me, while others told me yesterday how important I am to them. That’s pretty fantastic.

So thank you, all of my very very bestest friends for all being my wonderfully inspirational and supportive sisters, and proving me completely wrong.