MY SUN, MOON AND STARS

I've come to be so grateful of the relationships I have in my life. The people I have started to surround myself with bring a lot positive energy into my life and keep me grounded. It was hard finding these people, genuine souls are hard to find and i had to weed out through many bad friendships and relationships to find these people and be truly happy.

When I was younger, my friendships were mostly consistent of toxic and negative people. It's those years where you don't have a certain grasp of who you really are and what you really stand for and at the same time you don't want to be alone and what to make as many friends as possible. I personally blended with people I had nothing in common with but the age and the timetable; I felt almost obliged to make friends at a point in my life in order escape loneliness. I will never say I regretted making those friendships because they taught me lessons, some of those lessons i learnt quickly and some took many years and I cheshire those lessons today; qualities that have built me into the person I've become.

Sometimes letting the wrong people see who you really are can feel like a huge slap in the face once they betray you, but a lesson is a lesson no matter the pain you gained from it. I like to think that we all go through a phase in our lives where the people we surround ourselves with are merely shadows we hide behind.

Finding people you connect with is a challenge, you must go through a certain amount of disappointment to find happiness in the ties you create. Friends become a part of you like a family. These are the people that see you for you; find these people and keep them close.
There are wonderful people in my life that I have huge adoration and respect for. These people know me inside out and they are huge parts of me. I see myself in my friendships loud and clear and that brings me great joy.

I have friends whom I don't speak too for months but once we reconnect we pick up from where we left off. Friends whom I can communicate with about something as simple as what I had for dinner to something as important as third world countries and police brutality in seconds. I have friends who stay awake until four in the morning on the phone speaking to me about anything and everything.
I would take a bullet for the friends I have because these people have a big part of my heart. These people know exactly who they are and they have stuck by me from good to bad. My friends are my family.

I hope you all find yourselves in your friends because once you do, great joy will be set in your hearts.

THIS POST WAS CO WRITTEN BY GABRIELA GOIS.