Appreciation.

A friend of mine said something to me yesterday that got me thinking. She said, 'people dont appreciate you enough, but i do, you are my lifesaver and i dont know what i would do without you' this genuinely made me cry a little, but it actually made me realise that she is right. I help people day in, day out, but the favour is never really returned. Only by a select few- this person and few friends i have outside of my friendship group.
I wish i was appreciated more by my friends but were all knee deep in our own issues. SO how come, me and this friends managed to look after ourselves, each other AND the rest of the group, why do we never get this back in return? 
To be honest if i was someone else this may bother them, but because of my personality, i dont particularly care that im not being looked after or coddled within the group because i dont care about myself i care more about others, and this will soon come back and haunt me when im on my own in the big world we call earth.
Well, all in due time eh? 

hmmm, this made me think...