Everything should have something to be thankful for during this holiday season.

First off, to Mom and Dad, thank you for dealing with me every day, even when I’m not home. Thanks for listening to me whine and complain, but thank you for always giving me the best advice. Thank you for all the things you do for me, as you guys have always gone above and beyond your job as a parent. But what makes it even better is that you guys don’t consider it a job and you view it as a passion to be the best parents you can be.

To my brother; you are the other half of me. In our family, I am the sister and you are the brother. And there is no one without the other. You are my strength, my weekness, my motivation, and my intellect. I may annoy you and you may do the same to me, but we always know that there’s no one we miss more than each other when we’re separated and there’s no one else we’d rather have as that other half.

To my boyfriend; you have taught me what it means to love. There was no real true love before you and you have showed me that love is mutual and natural when it is real. You are my strong supporter, my personal motivator, and my happiness. You have helped me find myself and every day, I remind myself that there’s no one else I’d rather have in my life. And even though you are so far away from me right now, there’s no one else I’d rather share this holiday season and every day for the rest of my life with.

To everyone who has come, and gone, or decided to stay; You may not be here anymore, you may not talk to me every day, or you may not talk to me at all, but thank you for shaping me into the person I have become. Without your presence in my life, I cannot say I would be the same person I am today. So whether or not we’re friends or enemies, I am thankful you have crossed your way into my life at some point, because I have only been made a bigger, better, and stronger person because of it. The moments might have been good or bad or somewhere in between, but I have shaped myself from it.

So, throughout this holiday season, I remind myself that there are things to be thankful for and remind myself as to why I am thankful for them. And besides materialistic things, there’s nothing I could be more thankful for than the people I have come across in my life, as their actions and words have shaped me into “me.” So,

what are you thankful for?