Everyone has that one person they turn to for anything. In times of happiness, sadness, anger, and frustration. In times of loneliness, and in times when you wanna rejoice for no longer being lonely. That person who will be in your life no matter what kind of crime they commit or how many times they puke in your car, they will always be your person.
I have that person and she is my sister through thick and thin, and I would never change the bond we have. She's taught me so many things in life and she's helped me be strong in times that weakness surrounded me. She is my light in the darkness.
But my person lives with something that most people don't even know about. She suffers anxiety and social depression. She's someone who puts herself through hell and she can't even help it, and most people don't even know about it because she buries it down.
But I am lucky because I am a person she trusts, and in helping her through this she has taught me more than I could have ever expected.
She's taught me patience, in those late night calls when she didn't even know why she was crying but she just needed someone there to listen and tell her to breathe. In these times I sat and I listened no matter how much it hurt to hear her pain I sat and waited.
I told her to slow down and breathe and that I would away I'd be there for her no matter what. And when they crying stopped that when she taught me how to truly listen.
When someone doesn't know why they are crying they don't need advice or you to try and connect that just need someone who will listen. No matter if it's about the boy that broke her heart or that dumb barista at Starbucks who can never get her order right, I listen.
Lastly, she taught me unconditional love. She showed me that I had the capability to there for someone no matter what time of day or night or where I may be. When she called or texted I was there.
But she didn't just teach me things about myself, she showed me things.
She showed me what it was like to be trusted. To know I was her go-to person no matter how bad the situation was or how badly she wanted to hide it from the world she called me.
She showed me unconditional love right back because she too answered when my crying was over the dumb boys that I let break my heart over and over again I knew she had my back too.
This article is dedicated to her, my person who has taught me so much, and who has taught me to have her back in a whole different way. She'll have my back through everything and our bond is one that can never be broken.
