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Hi Beautiful Thinkers,
Friendship is such a beautiful thing.
I know I could not get through the things I do without the support of my friends.
But true friends have been hard to come by for me, being chronically ill in so many different ways can make it so difficult to build connections with people. I know myself it is difficult to get up out of bed at times so making that face to face connection with people can sometimes be difficult and then I have the other issues of having to ask myself:
Will people accept me for me?
What will they think of me?
I still have to ask myself those questions on a semi-regular basis.
I used to all people were the same.
That all people bullied those who were different.
That all people would see was my physical disability.
It would be impossible to make friends.
All of that changed, when I moved to university. I was hit by a sudden rush of excitement! when I came to the realization that most people embraced my differences. When I was younger I didn’t have any friends as running around and playing games like hide and seek were a challenge for me.
Nowadays, through relief is here with amazing online sites like Livewire ran by the Starlight Children’s Foundation
These days, I have out grown such wonderful support. I have so many wonderful friends on and offline.
My offline friends are the one’s I truly want to dedicate this post to.
Sometimes, when I become so tired and I cannot get out of bed my online friends are there to curve the feeling of loneliness, we are all equal.. typing not running. A lot of people are quick to critique social media, and I agree that you must be extremely careful when using it and “Use your head and keep your wits about you” as my Nan says but it can bring a lot of good to ones life too.
I have a few online friends who I am blessed to have in my life, we Skype one another, write and wipe away each others tears despite never having met face to face.. I could not imagine my life without some of them- teaching me from a distance so many things, we can not hug each other physically, but that does not matter because our friendship is tied together by our heart strings and we know that we are always there in each others heart.. something far more beautiful.
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Shaz
xx
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