You can always count on your friends.

Friends are marvelous things.
Really marvelous, magical creatures.

Or at least good friends are.

I am incredibly blessed in that respect, to have friends as good as mine are (and mine are clearly the best). And do you know what makes my friends so awesome? Well I do. And it's a great many things. Too many perhaps to list here.

But what I like best about them is that as well as they understand me, as capable as they are of cheering me up when I'm sad, as much fun as we have when we're together, we all have our own lives. My best friends are marvelous creatures. Creatures who don't need me all of the time. Who have fun in their own lives and aren't wounded when I have fun in mine. That's a fantastically rare quality, as simple and perhaps obvious as it seems.

The world is really full of mediocre people. People without any drive, or goals, or opinions, who always want to do what you want to do so long as they never have to be alone, and that's really...lame. I'm super grateful for the handful of really astoundingly spectacular people in my life who constantly remind me how awesome life is by just letting me live mine on my own terms. That's such a cool gift.


On a similar note, today a Dear Friend took the time to remind me of all the 'shiesty bitches' we've encountered in our years together. We reminisced and laughed, and talked about all the messed up things we put up with from other people for a good long while. And then she gently reminded me to be extra vigilant while I'm out being the social butterfly. Because where there are butterflies, there are shiesty bitches, looking to catch them. (And to remind me that if anyone messes with me, she'll flay them.) I've never felt more loved.



P.S. Speaking of shiesty bitches, Mr. Archer, one of the girls in my yoga class knows you in passing. Can you guess who she's best-y best friends with? ;) Love you!