Foundations

The thing I've realized about me is, I probably wouldn't be too strong of a person, but I have some pretty amazing foundations holding me up. Made up of people in my life. The ones who are there to count on all the time. Let me tell you about some of them. I have THE greatest immediate family in the world. Who knew that those super annoying people I used to live with (my siblings, of course) would turn out to be my closest friends? Who knew that when I bought that phone to be able to talk to whoever I wanted, whenever I wanted, it would mainly be my siblings that I would be communicating with? I sure didn't know. I probably would have spewed food, beverage, snot, guts (ok i'm getting super gross now) out of every facial orifice if someone had told me that 4 or 5 years ago. In addition to my immediate family, I have an incredible extended family. I love my cousins. I love my aunts and uncles. I just LOVE my family. go ahead and take a peak at the pics below. pretend that you wouldn't love these people if you want, but for real, you would.






Then there's those people you hope you'll stay close to forever, but you don't think you really will, and then you find out that you do. well, as close to forever as I am at least. These people are quality. These people were meant to be in my family , I think, but they were just needed somewhere else. So now they're blood relatives with other people, but they're still family. One of them is my blood family. My womb-sharer, that's who. The rest are those people from high school I actually made a point of staying in contact with. Maybe there are only like 2 or 3 of them, but that's more than enough for me. and then there's that one that we met freshman year. I always kind of wished we'd lived together freshman year, but I'm glad we didn't. Because if we had, this other person wouldn't be part of my foundation. And let me tell you what, she's kind of a huge part of my foundation. These 4 or 5 people mean everything to me. Maybe it does take me a while to trust people. Maybe I don't have a million friends, or someone to hang out with every night.

But I ALWAYS have these foundations. There are other foundations, too, but these ones I know will last. These ones are for real. These solid friends. This family.

It's a good possibility, well, actually it's a truth, that these foundations will be rocked a little. Shifted, if you will. People will move away and do good things with their lives, maybe learn a new language? Other things will happen that will try to chip away at the base, but it's just not gonna happen. Everything will be fine. Everyone will be fine. I'll be fine.

It's good to know that I have people. Not just one person, but people.