#for 2018

I’ve had friendships that have continued on into this year, and for those I am beyond grateful. I am so blessed that these amazing people have stuck around and that neither timezones nor distance have made our friendship any less of a friendship.

I’ve made so many new friends this year too! Friends who have appeared in my life and who I hope to be able to know better this coming year. You’re proof that taking the chance to reach out, even when you have what others would call a ‘set’ friend group, is so incredibly wonderful and worth it because you never know what literal gems you’re going to meet when you send a message or join a call.

To all my friends: whether I’ve known you for over a year or a few months or even a few weeks, whether near and in the same timezone or far and in inconvenient timezones, I am so beyond grateful for you. You’ve each brought me so many amazing memories and so many feelings of warmth and happiness to my life this year, whether you meant to or not. I am so incredibly thankful for everything that led up to meeting each one of you because you have seriously made my year so very memorable and wonderful. As numerous as you are, I can guarantee that I have, at the very least, three memories specific to interactions I’ve had with you that more likely than not, bring a smile to my face. And if I’m crying it’s because it was an especially happy memory. All the good tears, pals, only ever good.

And when I think about the people I know as acquaintances, there is no lack of fondness for you. The amount of people who have just…been so genuinely kind and welcoming out of the goodness of their hearts have added to making this year all that much better. Because you don’t know me, we’ve only had short conversations or only interacted through asks and whatnot, and still I get tagged in things you think I’ll enjoy (and I do), I get little bits of kindness at random moments, I see you interact with others and I can just tell how incredibly lucky people are to know you.

My wish for all of you this year is that the world treats you with kindness, and gives you random little joys throughout each day as often as possible. I hope that, if you’re struggling, that you’re given the support you need and that you’re surrounded by goodness. I hope you have friendships that continue to bring you laughter and feelings of warmth and allow you to be entirely you. I hope that you are content with yourself and the decisions you make and the people you surround yourself with. I hope that you’re able to accomplish whatever goals you set for yourself this year.

And, well, there’s quite a few of you and this post is already long as all heck and I don’t want to forget to tag anyone goodness gracious, how lucky am I to know so many incredible people and have such fantastic friends? , so if you read this, please know that this is my being thankful for you and the blessing that you are to me, to others, and to the world.

So in case I haven’t been super clear (which I really haven’t, since any reference to the following was stuck into the tags on like three posts), I recently sort of “discovered” that I’m bisexual... actually, I suppose the more accurate term would be biromantic. As in, I’m romantically/sexually attracted to men, and at least as far as I can tell, I’m romantically attracted to women.