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JFYI

Stress is starting to shadow me wherever I go.
He sits next to me in class.
Presses down onto my shoulders when I'm trying to do homework.
Lies next to me when I sleep.

The more He follows me, the more I start to snap.
The littlest things bother me now and every single time, my shadowy follower grows even bigger.

The more He stalks me the more I complain to my friends.
Sometimes though, it is my friends who cause him to grow.
They feed His ravenous appetite with their own complaints, their problems, their anger.

Other times though, I complain to my friends about Him.
About how He invades my dreams even while I am in a land filled with daisies and cotton candy.
As I complain, I wonder why my friends cannot kill this beast.
Why they can't solve my problems.

One day, I pleaded to one of my friends to help me. To kill my stalker.
My friend wisely responded:
I'm not here to help you, you aren't here to help me.
We're just both there when we need to talk.
And that...that is more important than help, or a gift, or any dinner you go out with friends.
The best thing in the world right now is to have someone to fall back on.

And although my problems are still not completely gone,
My friend had shed light on my enemy and caused the shadow to disappear....
(at least for now).

So my message to you today is say thank you to your friends.
Cause they're the best things you got in this time of Stress.