Dear friend,
You came into my life when I didn’t know I needed a friend. Your arrival came at perfect timing and left me knowing I have been truly blessed to meet someone as kind, funny, compassionate, and loving as you. And I just want to explain what you mean to me:
You found me and you began to build my life into something I forgot existed. I was like a puzzle; unfinished; lying on a table with no pieces put together- not even the edges. You liked the challenge and thus you began to piece me together as each person before you has tried to do. But, you were different. You didn’t give up after you had all the edges done and had learned about me like the rest of the world knew me. You continued to put together and stumble through the confusing pieces and solve the puzzle that I portrayed myself to be. And after you had finished, you knew me in my entirety. You called me a masterpiece.
I hadn’t known I needed someone to piece me together and to truly understand my most intricate pieces. Yet there you were, taking on a puzzle that everyone else had not bothered to take part of.
Human beings feel a desire to be loved and to be known. We fear that love can be superficial because of the fact someone doesn’t truly know us. There is struggle in putting all of our pieces on the table for someone to judge, fumble with, and decide to place together. Our greatest fear is that we are seen to be too complicated or not worthy of the time of those putting us together. Deep down, I and maybe you too need a friend to pick up your pieces, put you together, and still consider you a masterpiece.
It is once someone knows us completely as a whole that fear can driven out of love.
Luckily for me, I found that someone in a way I never expected. I found that someone somewhere I never expected- in a form I never expected.
So friend, I would never tell you this not because you don’t deserve to know you made me complete, but because I don’t want you to ever know I was broken. You are sunshine on a rainy day. You are a blessing in disguise. And yet, you are the person I needed the most when I didn’t know I needed a person.
Thank you.
