We are born into this world to people that we don't even know. And we grow up knowing that family is forever and we struggle to find our way in a unit that sometimes feels completely foreign to us. And if we are lucky we have mothers and fathers who are kind and loving and more superheroes than parents. And then we get siblings that hate us for a while even though they love us and somewhere down the line you grow into friends.
This is my story, and I believe this is the story of so many others out there reading this. It's not a good story or a bad story, just a story of some person's life. And it can be amazing and wonderful at times and then others it can be brutal and painful.
But then somewhere down the line, something happens to us all before we even really know it. We run into and find a group of people that become so special to us and at times even more important than our family. These people that I'm talking about are called FRIENDS. They are the people that tell you to pull up a chair in the cafeteria when you are scared and feeling out of place in a new school. They are the people that have stood beside you in the freezing cold while you're getting yelled out by your baseball coach and told you aren't even good enough to use the locker room. They are the ones that watch sneak out to watch you get yelled at by your coach. They are the ones that ask you to be in their weddings. They are the ones who stay up with you until 4:30 in the morning joking with you about the fact that you weren't smart enough to go to Pleasant Hill in grade school, and they are the ones that allow you to make a ridiculous deal about Black History Month and indulge your craziness over it.
And if you're lucky like I am this group of people that you call friends is really more like family and you know that you would do anything for them and that they would do anything for you. Life seems to be moving at such an alarming speed these days that sometimes I think that we all don't stop to realize the important things. We get caught up wanting so many different things and trying so hard to pursue all those things that we want that we fail to appreciate all the important things in our lives that we have. I believe I made that mistake once. I feel like I lost two years of my life worried about all the things I didn't have and all the expectations I wasn't living up to that I wasn't as appreciative of all those right there in front of me. I will never let that happen to me again.
Now this last month if any of you all were paying attention to the craziness that is my facebook profile you might have noticed that I was holding a Black History Contest with my friends. And if any of you out there have been offended by it then let me just take the moment to apologize. Let me also take them moment to say that it really wasn't for you. And I guess furthermore it wasn't for me. Don't be offended by the way that we celebrated it, instead be offended that there is one month out of the year taken to celebrate black people. Because as a black person I want to say that I celebrate us every month of the year.
This contest was about me and that special group of people that I call FRIENDS. I know this may song ridiculous to some people but I like to us it as a fun way to bring us closer together. Because the older we get, the more things begin to change, and the harder it is for us all to be together. Life has a funny way of pulling you apart from the things, and it's not in a bad way at all. We just grow up and we have kids, and jobs, and mortgages, and all other kinds of responsibilities and before you know it you lose touch. But not me, and not my FRIENDS. Because I don't mind taking a little heat about a contest if it means that every year for one month at least it brings my FRIENDS closer together. And that they will get together for one day and fellowship and have a good time.
I know how incredibly lucky that I am. To be honest with you I wake up everyday wondering how in fact I got so lucky. Whatever I did in my life to deserve it all I'll take it. And for those out there that I call FRIEND I really want you to know that it's not something that I take lightly and I'll never stop working to be a better one. I love you all very much and I just wanted you to know that and this entire is only the beginning.
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