I am an awful friend. It’s true! I forgot a good friend’s birthday a few days ago (I could have sworn it was next week) and doing such things is not uncommon for me. I forget birthdays and other important dates, I don’t always reply straight away to texts, I can go for weeks without contacting someone. I have a memory like a sieve and a poor attention span. And yet in spite of all of this, I still have a group of people who I would call ‘very good friends’.  This says a lot more about their loveliness and ability to forgive than it does about me!

I feel so blessed to have so many people in my life who are loving and caring, and I know that I need to make much more of an effort to make them realise how much they mean to me.  Maybe this will be my resolution for September (and beyond!).  I need to start being less selfish and preoccupied with my own life, and think more about others. I don’t purposefully neglect other people, I’m just rather accidentally thoughtless at times.

So, here will be the start of me hopefully thinking more about those amazing people I am lucky to have in my life, and focusing more on their needs.

Thank you to all of my amazing friends out there; you mean so much to me.