I was just reading something I wrote in a journal a couple weeks ago, and this really struck me:
"My family and friends are so amazing and I am so thankful for them. I love them. I need them and I love that they are there. I don't even have to ask, they just are. How awesome that I have the blessing of that? Some people don't know that love that I know. Some people will never know that love. I am lucky."
Even just reading it brings up the same emotions that caused me to write it, and makes me happy and thankful. I truly am blessed with a family that sticks together through thick and thin, and sometimes I forget that. We all have all kinds of crazy things going on and we all manage to reach out and lend a hand when we see someone we love struggling. I think that is really an amazing thing to have. I recognize that not many people have supportive family, or family at all for that matter, and I love that I have mine.
Every person in my life has a piece of my puzzle. Be it a small one or a large one, they are all necessary to complete the picture. I am so thankful for each person who holds a piece to my puzzle; everyone of them has taught me something, inspired me, or just made me smile. Some know this, and some don't- either way it is special. I look forward to expanding my picture as more people are given puzzle pieces. Life is and will continue to be an interesting, sometimes difficult, but always beautiful puzzle.