I love my friends

Right so it's probably weird that it's taken until the age of like 16 for this to hit me, but I was just sat on my couch watching YouTube or some shit and I just went....woah. I know some AWESOME people. And it's not like I didn't know this, or even acknowledge it, but I don't know how to explain it. It was just like being hit on the head. I'm not wording this right like at all but the long and short of it is I just realised that I LOVE the people I hang out with so so much, and that feeling actually feels really good and it's amazing. Like, these people actually WANT to be around me and I want to be around them too and no one is a bitch about it?? How fucking lucky am I?? Idk having actual friends that you like is so great and I'm grateful I've found people like that. One of the things I was afraid of when going to sixth form is that some of my friends wouldn't want to be around me anymore and that's just not the case at all, like we're all talking to new people AND each other, and we don't have to choose between either. I just feel so much love for these people and I don't know how to properly express that so I'm putting it here :). When I was younger I just assumed that romantic love was the only option and if I didn't have that I'd just like die alone and as it turns out that isn't true? I have so much love in my life already and neither is more or less important than the other. I don't need a partner to feel loved? Who'd have thought! Don't get me wrong, I'd still like romantic love one day, but until about 15 minutes ago I thought I was failing life because I didn't have it but now I'm getting the feeling that maybe I'll be ok

This experience has been kind of healing. It's nice I hope it happens more