Five Minute Friday - Crowd

Got five minutes? Come and write with us; it’s the best kind of free therapy.

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking
2. Link back over at Lisa Jo's place and invite others to join in. 

3. And don’t forget to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments.

OK, are you ready? Give me your best five minutes on: 

CROWD

GO:

“I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them 

and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.”  

Stepen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Life seems so hard when I was young.  It was hard to make friends, it was harder still to keep them.  I never felt like I belonged anywhere.  I always seemed to be on the outside looking in and wanting, desperately wanting, to be a part of the crowd.  

I grew up and I had children.  One right after the other.  Sleeping, squirming, kicking, talking, screaming, laughing, running, no time for anyone else children.  I remember them coming into my bed at night to cuddle and talk and giggle and tell me about their day.  I remember squishy hugs and sticky kisses all covered with love.  I remember feeling and knowing that I was right where i was supposed to be.  That this crowd, my family, was my place of belonging.  

A spot that nestled right in my heart, growing bigger with each and every child.  Satisfying my every dream, my every want, my every wish.  Being crowded is all I have ever needed.
Walking through them all, I know that I belong somewhere.  Right here, with them.  I have finally found my crowd.

STOP

Now it is your turn.  What can you write in your own five minutes?  Don't forget to join the rest of us over at Lisa Jo's!