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An Open Letter To My Group Chat

Thank you for letting me lose my filter completely.

Kortney Dennings

Oct 03, 2016

Michigan State University

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Texting you guys can truly make my day.

I appreciate that we can talk about any and everything - food, relationships, makeup, politics, dogs, sex, literally anything. I know that I can text my unfiltered thoughts into our chat, regardless of how insane they are and one of you will agree with me, or at least entertain said thoughts.

I can text the chat when I am having a good day, and I know that everyone will be genuinely happy for me, even if you guys are having a horrible day. You'll be engaged and ask about what happened, or say that you're happy for me. I appreciate this more than you guys know.

I love texting our chat when I'm having a bad day, or when something or someone makes me mad. I can type paragraphs or a million short messages; you guys don't mind. I can say every curse word known to exist and type the most questionable things, but you all just thrive off of it and then we end up in some heated discussion. At that point, I'm not even mad anymore because I'm laughing so much at all of our messages and it makes my bad days so much better.

Our group chat is so uplifting. Anytime someone sends a selfie that they feel good in, we all make sure they feel like a queen. When someone doubts themselves or their ambition, there's a 99% chance that we are all writing paragraphs about that person explaining to them why they are so wonderful and telling them to stop being so hard on themselves. When someone says that someone outside of our group chat was rude to them, our chat transforms into a "Comedy Central Roast" - it's great.

Anytime something big happens, you already know it's getting sent to the group chat. We can go from obsessing over expensive makeup to in-depth discussions about social injustices around the world in a matter of minutes. We can have conversations about the stupidest things and about things that are really important. You're all so smart and strong and I admire what you have to say immensely.

We talk about things that I feel like I could never talk about with other people. We talk about things that I'm not sure most people even discuss with their friends, but I love being able to tell you guys literally anything. If someone read our messages, they'd be very concerned and question our sanity without a doubt. But you guys taught me to that it's perfectly fine to talk about things that we're taught to keep quiet about it. I love that we have absolutely no filter and can be our true selves around each other.

Thank you for supplying me with endless laughs, correcting me when I'm wrong, uplifting me when I'm down, and for being the funniest people on the planet.

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