The Best Thing

by Mariana Zapata

When you wanted something to work, you made it work. This wasn’t about me anymore.

I’d remember the next words out of his mouth every day of my life. I would remember them each time I thought I had no idea what I was doing being a mom. Jonah Collins squeezed my hand. That muscular shoulder rolled upward, and he said, in a rough voice, gripping my fingers tight, “What a gift you’ve given me, Lenny.”

It’s easy for people to love you when you’re doing things for them, when they get something out of it. But it isn’t so easy to find people who will still love you when you’re down and need help getting up. That’s when you really find out who’s with you for the right reasons.

“Some people are lucky to find one person in the world to love. Some people are even luckier to find more than one person to love and be loved back.