Grateful for: Friends and Family

By: Barbara Rodriguez

This year has been a year to recognize to not take anything for granted, everyday there has been a new reason I have found to be grateful. I'm most grateful for my friends and family. I find so many reasons to be grateful for the people in my life everyday. I am appreciative because they push me more and more everyday to be a better person, they know what's best for me most of the time and most importantly they make me happy.

I am also so grateful that my family can provide for me not just food, and a home but also the comfort of knowing they are not just my family but my best friends. They make and will have a huge impact on the person I am, and the person I will become. My friends are always there at my best and lowest, I've recognized who has stayed there by my side and who hasn't and I am truly appreciative of my friends who are still by my side and those who aren't because both have also made an impact on the kind of person I am. I am greatly appreciative of my friends and family, the people who have come and gone and everyone who has made an impact on who I am.