Recently, I’ve been noticing that a lot of my friends have been losing their energy more often than usual. I think it’s because of online school surprisingly taking much more time out of our lives. It really does break my heart how I’ve been meaning to talk more to one of my closest friends but she’s always busy with school and has no time to call often, like I do with our other friends. Everyone is stressed and tired with the circumstances and I really want to give them all the encouragement and affection I can give them. Hopefully it can make them feel better and “repair their hearts” (like on the flyer). Even when I’m not really close with them, giving them support and sending them frog memes are the least I can do during these times.

Thinking about a constellation assignment I had for school, it relates to this because (it’s kind of funny but) recently my friend group had a small, wholesome conversation about our thoughts on each other and we just confessed whatever was on our minds. Just like in that assignment, we all shared the details and our interpretations of the topic (but instead of the animated video we watched in class, we would take turns talking about each friend and our observations of their characteristics and efforts). Reading all the heartening comments I got, it really is as if I could make a beautiful constellation with them. In my head, I gathered their messages and it did make something gorgeous altogether. We all said some really cherishing things to each other and it was a heartwarming boost for my mental health. I suddenly didn’t feel alone in this anymore, and I honestly started privately venting to one of the members in that chat without feeling ashamed or scared that they’d judge me (because we aren’t really that close, but I just felt like I needed some repairing). They gave really sweet advice and I’m not even joking, I became better friends with them. They even sent me their jazz playlist to make me feel better.

I really almost started losing faith in myself because I was starting to doubt my friendships with everyone. But that conversation really fixed the issue I had and it kind of inspired me to draw that funny flyer. I wanted to be a lot less hard on myself and I got to look at myself in a different perspective, thanks to my friends. In the constellation assignment, I was also able to understand the animation in my group mates’ views and it’s really mind blowing how everything is just better with friends (besides the times where I feel the need to be a stay-at-home introvert). Whenever they need attention and a little help, I try my best to be there for them. Sometimes I can’t really read their minds or the personal problems they’re going through, but some positive words never hurt anybody! Maybe it could also “repair” their heart like their deep, touching comments did for mine!