Safety Blanket

From the beginning it was there, you're blanket. A little suspicious at first, you slowly warmed up to it then it somehow becomes an extra appendage. It is there wherever you go. As a kid, it was the cape when you pretended you could fly and there to catch you when you jumped off the roof when you realized you couldn't. It provides just the right amount of warmth the nights when you are cold. In feeling lonely, it's what you turn to. Whenever you're afraid or just need something to hold on to, it's right there. However, if it's not where you've left it, you freak and frantically search for it until you've found it. To share your tears, to take in your fears, to throw around when you're angry, it's there and always will be. When you make important decisions, it'll be by your side even when it's the wrong ones. If you forget about it for a while and want to try new things, you'll always realize that it's not the same, and it'll be right where you've left it, with no protest. As you grow older, you develop a different kind of dependence. It may not be as prominent in your life anymore, but you know it's there. But this as a bad thing, it's supposed to happen this way. In fact, it's happy when you do find your way by yourself.

This blanket is the most important people in your life. Whenever you need them, they're there. Sometimes it's difficult to ask for help, and when you finally do, you're glad you asked. Even when you feel like you've made the biggest mistake in your life, they'll tell you that you haven't and everything will be ok. Even though you know they're just saying that to make you feel better, just the comfort of having them there is enough. They celebrate when you do well and succeed. When it does come time to grow up, you need to find your own life and not be so dependent on them.

My "safety