Friend: Simple word. Amazing Results.

Janae wrote a post earlier this month about the friends that surround her and the power of each individual’s characteristics that add strength and insights into her life. After I read her post I have been building a mental blog about all the people that surround me and how she hit the nail right on the head. Read Janae's post here!

I believe that we have people in our lives that do not mirror ourselves for the purpose of building upon one another. I do not believe we can get far by ourselves therefore we won't get further with people exactly like us. Their strengths are our weaknesses and our strengths our their weaknesses. We lack ideas so that our real friends can explain it to us in a language only we would know. We struggle with any given issue to reveal the ones that will truly stay through it all. I have a circle of friends who all poses an amazing sense of humor and enjoy life.

With any given spin on my ‘friend’ roulette wheel I am able to land on a specific characteristic that they offer which shapes my brokenness at that moment in time. One friend can calm me from my extremeness. One friend can bring me in from walking the plank. One friend can speak my inner thoughts even when i didn't know i was thinking. One friend can complete my sentences when I can’t speak.

They can help me pack with I am already gone and communicate with each other when I am not stepping my best foot forward.
Within the last few months I have really appreciated the small gratitude’s - rather it be helping me clean or sitting down for coffee.

They are my multitudes of therapy that contribute to refilling my glass of wine, turning an un-bias CD up to drown out the noise, preventing my daydreaming, playing Wii til 2am, keeping me occupied with food and cards, or playing a song to communicate 'i know what you mean'!
Someone once told me you don't marry someone because you fall in love with them, you marry them because you love what you know and you want to spend the rest of your life learning more.
Sorry, that was a small tangent, but i think the same rules apply. I am not talking about marriage but just being in a relationship with someone. The more i learn about the weaknesses and strengths of my friends the more i love them.