My friends are my adrenaline; everyone feeds everyone elses' rush...we're a collective, a group that leans together to create a stable structure that supports all components. There's blue- my best friend and so much more; the one who knows what's wrong and right with me before I even say a word; spontaneous and mischievious and all things fun- he's my check and balance, the one I love in all ways possible. He amazes me daily; I never knew it could be like this. It took me a year, and almost losing him to realize just what I had. Then there's TbC- she and I go back such a very long ways- we really actually hated each other in elementary; but the closer we got to grade six, the more we realized that she wasn't "the snooty girl" and I wasn't the "weird one." (wait....yes I am.) Since then we've shared so much, and I don't know where I would be without her; I wouldn't have someone I could sit up late and watch stupid movies with, get scared over nothing with, go mini golfing religiously with, decimate food supplies with; between her guidance, constant loving attention and occasional good hard headlock, I'm that much better off. There's Iain, who shares my love of literature and lore; the strangest and sweetest boy I've ever met- one of the first boys I ever kissed, and the one who's been around for years upon end- we've grown up together. He one of the ones who's shaped who I am, and I'm grateful he's helped me turn out right. Meghan sticks by me; she was the one that put it (even on my birthday card) "from one bitingly sarcastic person to another." What an odd pair we make; but we're SO fun. It's amazing how we can get any work done- it seems as if we're never serious, but we can always do whatever we set our minds to...even if we have to sit in the bathtub, nair our legs, talk on the phone, read magazines and do math homework simultaneously. The thing about Meghan; she just gets it. There are so many other people, I could go for days and fill up pages upon pages of space; but I won't. To cut it short and sum it up: my friends are who I live for; they help me to be real, to be confident, and to be loved. That's all I could ever ask.