For My Friends....Thank You

I try to be a great friend and I try to only have the absolute best friends. Everyone in my life is a choice and I try not to have negative influences, try. I am not always successful but I do a pretty good job.
Everytime I think of my friends I smile. I have awesome friends that I know I can reach out to at any time for anything. They have proved their commitment to our friendship many times over, and I can only hope they feel the same in return when they think of me.
When I look at the characteristics of my closest friends the following words come to mind:
Reliable
Understanding
Non-Judgmental
Flexible
Loving
Supportive
Honest
Funny
Encouraging

Those are just off the top of my head. My friends have dropped everything to come be my side, or try to take my mind off of it, as I grieved. My friends have listened to me cry about lost loves, laugh about bad exes, gushed about new potentials, and whined about the everyday same old crap at work. My friends have encouraged me when I have felt like I had nothing good going on, they have pushed me when I was too scared to take a chance and be something more or something different than I was, They have given me courage to make tough decisions, permission to make mistakes, and have assured me my attmepts at parenting are not as big of a failure as I worry they might be. My friends have hugged me, kissed me, told me they loved me, and been my family when I had none. My friends have opened my eyes to the truths I was running from and the lies I have sold myself. My friends have allowed me to be who I am (no matter which "personality" that may be). My friends have given me food to eat, places to live, cars to drive, and shoulders to cry on even at the most inopportune times.
I can honestly say without my friends I would not be who I am today. I can honestly say without my friends I would not be where I am today. And I can honestly say without my friends I would be terrified of my future.
Thank you so much to each and everyone of you for loving me even when the choices I make are not the ones you would choose, for caring about me in the good times and the bad, for being the rocks to keep me safe, and for being you. I am so incredbly blessed because I have you in my life. I know it, and I hope you now do too!
All my love...<3