F.R.I.E.N.D.S

THERE IS A BLOG I ADORE

LE LOVE

IT IS FILLED WITH LETTERS OF LOVE LOST, LOVE GAINED, AND LOVE SEEN

LOVE UNREQUITED, LOVE POURING FROM ONE HEART

TO ANOTHER, LOVE FOR FRIENDS LOVE FOR LOVERS

AND A DISCUSSION OF JUST HOW WONDERFUL, HARD, TERRIBLE, EASY, SWEET, AND ADVENTUROUS THIS EMOTION

AND EXPERIENCE IS AND CAN BE

I RECENTLY LOOKED THROUGH THE ARCHIVES

AND FOUND THIS

It's a different type of love, and maybe we all need a break from the achey, sweet love that comes with romance, the kind that excludes the rest of the world, the kind that's limited only to you and him / her.

So this one goes out to all the best friends in the world. The ones that smile for you when you excitedly fall in love with some new, unknown boy. The ones that take time off work / school just for a little naughty afternoon shopping and eating on weekday. The ones who drag you to social events just to distract you from a broken heart. The ones who respond to every facebook, every twitter status update, just so you don't feel so alone and ignored. The ones who recognise you have a right to feel as shitty as you do about the boy who hurt you even though they'd spent the last two years telling you he was nothing but trash, the ones who don't tell you you're a fool, the ones who tell you you've a right to hurt. Because they're also the ones who have the strength and the love enough to tell you to snap out of it, that he was never worth it, because they're also the ones who have the courage to be honest enough to tell you you'd be a fool to take the manipulative creep back. The ones who introduce you to new and wonderfully normal and loving boys.

This one also goes out to all the best other-gender best friends in the world. The ones that pick you up late at night for supper, just to take you out of your head. The ones that show you not all the men in the world are screw-ups and traitors, the ones that help you believe that good people still exist in the world. The ones you can laugh with without wanting to kiss, the ones who can give you that insight into that boy's soul you've been dying to know. The ones who swear they'll beat up / get the triads to beat up the poor sod who had the poor judgment to cheat on someone as wonderful and incredible as you even though it's the first night they've met you. This one goes out to all the incredible best other-gender best friends in the world who stuck around even when you abandoned them because your possessive ex-boyfriend went loco every time you even spoke to them.

The ones that love you exactly the way you are, the ones that don't mind you snuggling against them just for a warm body without asking for anything more, the ones that come all the way down to the club from home just to drive you home, the ones that cry with you when you sit in your darkness wondering what you've done to deserve such betrayal from the one boy you'd give anything for. The ones that hurt with you when you're drowning in your darkness, the ones that hurt because they see your pain and can't do anything to touch you, to help you.

Friends never betray each other. We fight, sometimes. We disagree. We laugh at each other. But friends, friends are something else altogether. Friends are the universes way of saying: here, I know it's tough trying to find your partner, but here are some other people you know for sure you can count on forever. They're like family, but they love you without the moral obligation attached. They love you because they choose to, and because you fill a place in their lives and heart like no one else.

TO MY DEAR FRIENDS. I LOVE YOU.

THIS LETTER IS A REMINDER THAT THERE IS A GREAT DEAL MORE LOVE

IN THE WORLD THAN THAT WHICH EXISTS BETWEEN ONLY TWO INDIVIDUALS

IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE WONDERFUL FRIENDS

YOU COULD ALMOST SAY YOU HAVE IT ALL

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A BONUS

xx