Good people

are priceless. I am fortunate to have a friend of 8 years that’s stuck with me through long-distance and many life changes. I’ve had opportunities to spend a week with him twice this year and I had forgotten what it’s like to feel at home with someone. He practices living from a place of love and it really shows. He’s incredibly goofy and funny. Passing time with him is so easy.

Rather than continuing to gush about him, I wanted to touch on how visiting him has inspired and encouraged me to treat myself better. We are experienced at opening up to each other and we’re both very thoughtful. I’ve noticed there are things that I typically hold back from sharing that I was able to vocalize with him. It’s so important to have at least one person with whom you can be so vulnerable. We talked about self-love recently, something I struggle with greatly. It’s not just his words but also his energy that was able to reach me and soften me a little. It’s incredible. It’s free therapy.

If you’ve never experienced a friend like I’ve described, then until you do you won’t really know what you’re missing. And you’re really missing out! Feeling loved is what life is all about. Feeling comfortable around someone with no effort is wonderful. What I’m essentially saying is, you don’t know how good you can have it but once you experience it, your standards for people change. For friends and life partners both.

Maybe I’m rambling and repeating myself a lot. I’m just so grateful that I know what’s possible in a relationship between two people. How good it can be. You might be skeptical. I know how I felt hearing other people talk about this sort of thing. Now I get it. I know what it is to be treated as worthy of love, no matter what. It makes life more worth living.