I'm out to everyone and everyone loves me!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm done! I'm fucking done! It's been an incredibly long and struggling path. From realizing I like guys, to realizing I'm gay, accepting I'm gay, coming out to friends, parents and now my siblings and them finally now accepting me. Many nights crying, praying I was straight, wondering what my family would think, what my friends would think.

I have come out to my closest friends, my parents, my brother and sister as well as my Facebook (does that count?). My friends were great, however my parents at first had issues with it. They have now come along and after I think great amounts of research have come to accept me. They have said they love me, they hope I find someone just as great as me to spend my life with and that guy will be welcomed at our home whenever I want. They read a book of essays/letters written by teens in regards to coming out as well as I'm sure a lot of research online and now that they're EDUCATED, they're able to accept me for who I am. I have always stressed this so much with people - they fear what they do not understand. If someone becomes educated on a topic, they are leeps and bounds more likely to accept it and be okay with it. This morning I woke up to an e-mail from my mother apologizing for making gay jokes, making fun of gay people, etc. and telling me how much she loves me, she will love to meet my future "friends" (she didnt say boyfriend heh, probably still working on it) and all kinds of other great things. I read it on my phone and just curled up and smiled in bed afterwards. Today felt like the best day of my life in a long time and I shared that with others around me. Someone dropped a $20 while walking down the hallway and I gave it back to them. Normally if I saw a $20 I'd think "Hey its my lucky day" but the Happy "Me" thought otherwise today. Every song on the radio just made me smile and the sun coming down on me felt great (jealous non-Californians?)

I fucking love all of you for listening to all of my crap throughout all of this and as well as want to thank you for sharing your stories that I read to gain courage to do this myself. When I was in that shithole of a closet, I never really thought I would come out at first. It was some kind of dream-world that I could never be a part of. I now am in that dream world and it actually happened. I would read threads like this and think I could never do that, but I did and now everything has worked itself out and it's great.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

 

LOL! Love it! :roflmao: