Feeling loved

I'm feeling really good about myself. When things get hard there are people who just try to make your life more difficult and then there's people who somehow manage to make your life easier. Recently I've experienced the latter.

Yesterday I got to talk to a younger friend of mine who I hadn't had contact with for about 3 years. Well we talked for a while and she told me how she was doing and I told her what was going on with me...basially just touch base.. but what really got to me in the convo was when she told me I had always been her role model. How great is it to know you are someone's role model? Pretty damn good I tell you...

Then today I received a card from a classmate of mine who I don't actually know well at all. I just know her name and that she's a very attractive Kristin Kreuk look-alike, but she sent me a card telling me how much she admired me as a person because I'm always working hard at my success and thanked me for making her feel comfortable the first few weeks we were at college (we had class together) by just being a friendly, easygoing person. That message was the highlight of my day and I didn't get to see her and thank her and I won't be able to because I'm leaving tommorow, which kind of sucks, but it feels so good to know I made a difference in someone's life. I was really flattered.

The next couple weeks I will be participating in a number of volunteer and community service events. I know that I'll definitely find that very fulfilling.When things get really crazy I think of the people I love and the people that love me...but it's just so nice when you find out someone you didn't expect be thinking about you had you in their thoughts. It's just those surprises that keep me going. My life in the last year has had a lot of those.