lxiv.

i want to thank all of my friends.

glorious each and every one of you are.

no matter what the outcome is, i want to thank you all for being my support during this time- i am humbled by your presence in my life.

thank you for teaching me the beauty of vulnerability- and thank you for allowing me to experience the joy of requited love.

you have all blessed me beyond measure, teaching me of the grace and beauty that walks with strength.

for all this, i will forever be indebted to you all in the most lovely of ways.

"i have perceiv’d that to be with those i like is enough,      

to stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,     

to be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,     

to pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then?     

i do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea."

-whitman