Inspired by the fabulous five

JB wrote another blog to make me cry. Nothing new there, she does it all the time... However, it is the "meaning" behind the words she writes that touches me the most. I know her 5 - and not all in the flesh, but through her sharing with me, and her love of them.

While reading it, it made me think, can I pick out those people in my life? Maybe not quite as easily, I have to dig down deep to find some of it. I'm not good at needing others. Decided long ago that "needing" didn't work well for me. All the same, a few have gotten through...
- I don't talk to Sarah anymore, no particular reason, just seemed to be the end of that season and if we came across one another we would converse as if it was just yesterday we talked and then go our own way. However, she alone taught me how to be a friend. She refused to walk away from the challenge.
- Patty didn't care how smart I was, or how together I looked to the world, she just expected me to be genuine and would tolerate nothing less. I will miss her for the rest of my life.
- When I talk to Janeal, or she is in the room with me, a calm, content comes over me I only recall experiencing when my grandmother would hug me. She understands what drives me to be me more than even I do. She is my compass.
- Sue is my guardian angel. She pulled me back from a dark place I could have never survived. Nothing she could ever do would make me see her in any other light.
- Two people could not be more different than Dawn and myself. How our friendship ever developed will remain a great mystery. She shows little to the outside world but is a person of conviction. She does not judge me when I make mistakes, and knows about many of them.