By Madison Sabados 
If you’re lucky, this life will give you friends you call “your people.” These are the people who see you go through all kinds of different phases—the good, the bad, and the really ugly. These are the ones who cheer you on when something good happens and hold you when something bad happens. And when that something bad happens, all you have to do is open your eyes. There they are.
They are the ones who help mend hearts they had no part in breaking. They are the ones you call with tears streaming down your face. You aren’t sure how you’ll ever be okay, but they already know. They will never leave you. They remain a constant in your life.
When you need to get out of the house, they show up and sometimes have to force you to move. They will never let you sit and stew in your brokenness. But if you decide sitting and stewing in your brokenness is all you have, they will sit next to you and hold you through it. They make you eat, and even if it’s just a crumb, they celebrate it because it’s a win.
Sometimes they are the ones who fight the battles you can’t. When you have no fight left, they pick up the armor and get to work.
They are the ones who pray for you. They pray you see yourself the way they see you.
They are the ones who hear you say “I’m fine” and don’t believe it for a second. They won’t ever tell you “everything happens for a reason”—they know that’s not what you need to hear.
They are the ones who, when your heart is broken, immediately get to work patching it up. They sit with you in the quiet, even though they know the voice in your head is so loud. You never have to explain to them how you’re feeling—they just know.
These are the friends who start to pick up the pieces before you’re even broken. These are the people you never have to prove yourself to. They know your worth and they know someone, someday, will see it too.
Once you are good and healed, you have these people to thank.
Thank them for loving you when you felt so unlovable.
Thank them for showing up when you felt so alone.
Thank them for cheering you on, even if it was just for getting out of bed and facing the day.
Thank them for loving you the way you deserve to be loved.
If you are lucky enough to have these people in your life, the ones who stay when everyone else seems to leave, hold on to them. They are one in a million.
To the friends who fixed this heart after heartbreak, thank you and I love you endlessly.
by Jenny Albers 
