Right Here

The people around us, those who see us for who we are, those that love us past our failures - these people help make us who we are and who we will become. Their support or their kindness, their tough words or their words that just say that they care; their simple actions that just prove one small fact - that they are still here. These people, they are the ones around us that bring us up when we are down. Who tell us straight when we've screwed up.

And there are people who lead us one way, and some who lead us another, but only those chosen few - those who care - lead us home. They lead us back through the trenches; and they lift us back up to where we came from. They know where we belong even when others seem to doubt; even when one begins to doubt themselves. They never fail us. Love never fails us.

This world is full of "friends" who look good, and share a good laugh over meaningless jokes; but those who care, they are there when life isn't a joke. When it's real and hard and true. That's when they are there by us. And there are days when life seems full of so many faces, all smiling and laughing; and then there are days where it is just you and those few. But in those times, when it is just you and them. That's when you feel it the most, that's when you know that of all the places that you may go, that here is where you are. And here is where you should stay. And HERE, right here, is where you always knew you wanted to be.