my friends

Being back in Toronto, working a job that drains me of all positive energy and doesn't pay me enough money to reach my goals in a timely manner, and living at home with my parents (whom I love very much, but let's face it I also love my independence) has me feeling a bit, blugh.

I've been trying to plot out the next few stages of my life and though I am unsure about where I'll be and about what I'll be doing, though certainty doesn't seem to figure into any of these plans, I have one area of my life where things are finally making sense and there are some things I can be certain of: my friends.

I guess it's true that with the more time that passes and the more changes we go through we really do start to realise who our true friends are. I also find that the older and more mature I get the friends I make, the people I choose to socialise with, become more important to me and closer to me much more quickly than people did when I was younger. I suspect this has to do with the fact that as we grow and decide on which roads we want to travel through life we meet people on the same route. We meet people who are more like minded than those we were pushed towards in high school and university. We choose the places we work, the places we live, the places we eat, drink, and dance, we choose the situations in which we meet other people who have chosen to be in those same situations. And like a wonderfully crafted puzzle we all fit together so much more easily and beautifully than we could ever have expected.

I have some really wonderful friends, some very new and some very old, but what is amazing is how much these people inspire me and support me and encourage me to be the person I want to be and not the person that it's easy to be. The next few blog entries are going to be dedicated to my dearest friends, the most important people in the world to me right now, and though I do not intend to name names for the most part, I'm sure most of them will know who I am speaking of. The point here is not to say so-and-so is great because they make me laugh, the point is to share some of the unique character traits of the most wonderful people in my life. To share the talent, intelligence, humour, beauty, and love of the most fabulous people I have ever met. The world needs more love and more honesty and I'm about to spill out a whole lot of love, honestly.