Mizuno Ami’s Journal

So, now it’s 2005.
What an amazing year it’s been so far. I made some great new friends: Usagi-chan, Rei-chan, Mako-chan & Luna. It’s been very tiring, very drainy, more than a little scary at times, and a lot of fun.
I think a lot of me still thinks that I’m going to wake up one day and find I’ve really just stressed myself into a mental institution and none of it is really real. Perhaps, if I’d discovered this senshi power by myself that would be true, but to have friends who are also going through this, is wonderful. To have friends even without going through something like this would have been nice.
If you understand me, what I’m saying.
I had always thought that ‘friends’ were not really an issue. To be by myself was okay, to be studying, to be doing the best in that respect. I see now, how wrong I was. I also see that the people before this who I had been considering to be friends were not. To be friends is to give and to take. It does not mean, the other people are constantly taking from you and giving nothing in return, or are just giving you the time of day because of what your mother does, or who your family is. To be friends, means to give things to each other; to share with each other; to talk about things and to be able to get things out around people who understand and sympathize; or offer advice, or tell you that you’re wrong if you need to hear that.
That is what friends is. I’m glad I found out.