[a beat] I mean, you're right. That determination is part of it. But...I think you'd have to understand that I've seen this a lot, back home.
There's a difference between helping someone because you want to help them and helping someone because they're your friend. It's not a difference in caring...you can really care about the person in the first case.
But with the first you know, even after they're on their feet, they'll move in and out of your life. It's...temporary. Important and hard and beautiful and terrifying, but temporary.
When it's a friend, though... you don't just walk away when they're stable. You don't just rejoice for a day and then check in once in awhile. You stay and you celebrate and live and you love. And when they fall, you're right there, because you know that if you fell they'd be there to do the same. It's...deeper.
You have a friendship that doesn't fade. A real friendship. Going both ways and everything. ...You're just at the leaning point, right now. That's all.
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[a beat] I mean, you're right. That determination is part of it. But...I think you'd have to understand that I've seen this a lot, back home.
There's a difference between helping someone because you want to help them and helping someone because they're your friend. It's not a difference in caring...you can really care about the person in the first case.
But with the first you know, even after they're on their feet, they'll move in and out of your life. It's...temporary. Important and hard and beautiful and terrifying, but temporary.
When it's a friend, though... you don't just walk away when they're stable. You don't just rejoice for a day and then check in once in awhile. You stay and you celebrate and live and you love. And when they fall, you're right there, because you know that if you fell they'd be there to do the same. It's...deeper.
You have a friendship that doesn't fade. A real friendship. Going both ways and everything. ...You're just at the leaning point, right now. That's all.