DAY 12 – SOMEONE YOU ARE GRATEFUL FOR

I am so thankful for my roommate. I don’t have any pictures of her, and her birthday just passed, but she took me in and allowed me to live here with her for so long. Honestly, coming from my situation in NYC to here saved me in general. It’s been a little over 4years now, and we are still rocking. We’ve oddly become like family, and we’re even operating that way as well.

Literally, since the beginning of the pandemic, she has been in my corner completely and has looked out for me and everyone in her circle. During the pandemic, I lost my job and my car, so she lowered my rent and added me to her insurance, so now we share her vehicle. She has been an incredible help and literal angel for the past two years, well, much longer than two years, but I am talking about the pandemic only right now.

• A list of things she has done that has truly saved me from anxiety and any other feeling of dread and sorrow this past year.
• Driving me places and helping me out to and from the amtrak and other places in NYC when I needed a ride.
• Letting me have her car for whole days to film
• Participating in my school work when I couldn’t find anyone else to do so
• Making me food several holidays in a row
• Feeding me
• Allowing me to have the car for the entire weekend for my upcoming birthday
• Helping me with money when I needed it
• Setting me up for success in my schooling and ensuring I have space and time to film throughout the house even though she works from like 7 am-midnight.

She is genuinely a godsend of a woman. They say when you treat people good, you’ll always have someone to take care of you, and she is the true definition of that statement. She has a strong network, who feeds her, takes care of her, helps her whenever they can, no matter if she asks or not. She works incredibly hard at work and her hobbies. We support one another out as much as humanly possible, and I am grateful to have met her and known someone like her. I have always done a lot for those around me, and I hope I have the community she does when I’m older.