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To The Friends Who Turned Into Family

Thank you.

Hannah Watkins
Mar 28, 2018
Middle Tennessee State University
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To The Friends Who Turned Into Family
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People come and go in everyone's life. You probably meet a new person almost every day. And that's the beauty of life, new things, new people, and new opportunities. One of the best things I’ve been blessed with in my life are the friends who came and stayed. The friends who go on family vacations, eat holiday meals, and ultimately care for me as a human being. Man, I wouldn’t sacrifice those friends for the world.

Over the last six years (and some before that), I have been showered with all the love and friendships that have molded me into the caring and loving human I am today.

Over the last six years, I have befriended people who have woken me up to situations in my life that I was sleeping on, I befriended people who drive four hours just to be with me for a weekend because we both just need each other, I befriended people who text my mom more than they text me and thats okay because they’re basically my other sibling, I have befriended people who never miss a family vacation, I have befriended people who invite themselves over on holidays to sit around my dining room table and chat with my family about life and all the happenings, I have befriended people who come to my house in the middle of the night just to grab a snack and chat because they know my doors are always open, I have befriended people who love on me and remind me of my worth when I am feeling down, and without these people and many more I wouldn’t be the human I am today.

I wouldn’t love as hard as I do, I wouldn’t appreciate people as much as I do, and I wouldn’t know the beauty of a good belly laugh over the simplest thing.

The friends that remind you of all the best things in life, like a good cup of coffee, a good book, or a corny joke are the people who touch your soul and mind.

So thank you friends who turned into family, you have reminded me that there is so much more to this life than what the eye can see. You are all beautiful humans and I am so blessed to be walking beside you in this world.

Hug your friends a little tighter today.

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