"At this moment, there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes, all you need is one."- Peyton Sawyer, "One Tree Hill"

The truth is, on any given day, we could be all of those people. Facing the truth...running scared...a good person struggling with daily evils in life. From personal experience, I can tell you that Peyton Sawyer could not have described it better. Sometimes, when the world seems dismal and disparaging, all you need is that one person who can convince you everything will be alright. And maybe its just that simple—hearing that tomorrow will come, and time will continue ticking, and the earth won't cease to spin. Just a small glimmer of hope in a desperate time: a familiar face standing firm when you would have understood if they had walked away.

But, there's a secret about what makes this one person able to comfort you in a time when no one else can. It's not that they know your heart in ways you don't comprehend yourself, and its not the fact that their ability to be honest, without recklessness, directs you to see things in a different perspective. This one person understands what it's like to feel your pain—to bear your anguish. Their smile resonates in your mind long after you've separated, and their laughter is tranquil when the soundtrack of daily life becomes melancholy.

Your person is the friend of all confidants, and a jack of all trades. They can amaze you with a symphony of embellished words, or with a simple hello. But no—none of these reasons are what makes the one person who you want to share your mountain tops with "your person." There's something much more deep and sacred in what separates this person from the other six billion souls out there fighting the same battle we internally struggle with. The secret that divides that one person, that one in six billion from the rest, is that person is you.