Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of socializing, going out for events, meeting friends, hanging out; part of it is because I’ve become more efficient and thus a bit more on track to accomplishing these little goals I have for myself on the daily, but a little bit of it I think is also because of the blessings from the people around me.

I am grateful for all of these things, and for the so many of you who have come in – strangers at first – and then parts of this strange yet beautiful slipstream of which we are all a part – all of which have led to a more flourishing time – greater joy from just being – a deeper sense from beyond the inner rim of things that there is something beyond the superficial things of life.

I am thankful for your presence, the moments where we found happiness, where it wasn’t just in the big or grandiose things that joy’s touch had reached me.

I can not, I will never be able to repay each of these gifts – but I will endeavor to be a better friend, a better source of support, a stronger person in each way – not to earn the esteem that you had already given to me, but to become even more worthy of it in thought, word, deed, that I may pass on to others the chain of benevolence of which I have become a part.

You who were there in a million and small different ways, you have no idea how much you have brought me to a better place.

I can only pray that I will be able to give you a small part of the joy that you have given to me in the days ahead 😀