An Open Note to My True Friends (You Know Who You Are...)

To my dear friends, young and old:
Just a note to say thank you for being you. Thank you for being my friend and confidant. I appreciate you for who you are, who you want to be, and who you were.

I love that I can come to you all with my thoughts, fears, emotions, tears, jokes, questions, stories, and more, and you will still call me your friend at the end of the day. You are my rocks, you are my buoys in rough waters, and I appreciate you.

Thank you for allowing me to have weird nicknames, or one-liners that only we would understand (while the rest of the world gives us really funny looks). The fact that you will let me be me means the world to me.

I don't think that we tell people enough these days what we're thinking or where we stand in life. So, here I am being real to each and every one of you, saying: thank you, I appreciate you, and keep being you.

You all rock.