Where The Heart Is

This is my best friend. Later this day I got some truly awful news, news that I have no idea how to process, news that I have no idea how to disseminate - or if I'm even supposed to. We work together, my best friend and I, and for that fact I was very grateful today because it meant that he was there to help me talk out what I was thinking/feeling and to just love me. That's all I really needed, to be in a loving environment. This is huge: to be so loved without any expectations. To.just.be.loved. That's all. It gives you the freedom to feel. To be selfish for a minute so that you can grasp what is going on around you, to not worry about anything else in the world outside of simply processing this big, big crushing moment.

I'm grateful. I don't know how this happened, but I do know that I'm incredibly lucky to have such people in my life. Thank you, Patrick. xo