FRIENDS ARE THE FAMILY WE GIVE OURSELVES

Everyday should be special in your life even if you're miserable, because someone else in this same city is doing a lot worse than you. So smile and shut the f--- up. You are incharge of your own happYness, and if you arent happy maybe you havent learned what you are supposed to be happy about, or with whom. Let me tell you what makes me happy and it may give you an idea of what you are lacking or better yet, have an abundance of.

Friends. Sure we have relatives, siblings, parents but hey, your choice of friends form the family you know will stick by you. We usually have a Mother friend that will listen to us sympathetically, give us a hug and tell us all will be alright, 'Let me make you a cup of tea." There's the group friends who will kick you to the curb when you have gotten out of line yet help you even when they don't agree with you. Then we have that best friend one that will listen to us moan and groan then laugh and remind us of the fact, they told us not to do that when they saw crazy coming through the club and us looking at him like he was gold. That's the "I told you" side of the family.

We should have a cultured friend that knows which fork to use, and a halleluja friend that wears socks with flipflops. One we admire and strive to be like and one we try to help rise above their lot in life, and one special one you drink coffee with and while away the time. This is your sister friend, one you have genuine love for that knows who the hell you really are, but likes you anyway. This should be our family, these friends of ours right along with our real family because no matter how bad things get, one of them is there to make you happy, they are right beside you just to help you get over that hump.

I lost my sister friend and it took a while to fill up that hole left behind, but eventually I did though I still miss her. So if you need happyness in your life, maybe you should re-do your friends and up date who makes you laugh. Throw a couple guys or girls in the mix, maybe a dog or cat because sometimes they listen and they are always without judgement. I hope you find your other family, they make life soooooo wonderful.

They, are the family we give ourselves.