...I have this friend. He's good with people, probably the best I've ever met. And he does this thing where he just...it's like he can see what people need most, where they need to go or whatever, and he pushes them just far enough to get them going, but then he lets them go. It's never too much, he always gets it right. Just as far as they need, and no more.
I used to wish sometimes that I was more like him. Because I admired that in him, that he could do that for people, understand them that well and care so much and get them to exactly where they need to be to start doing it on their own.
I have another friend who's like a speedboat. He goes past you and you can't help but get caught up in his wake, and sometimes you even get towed along. It seems like he's always going on ahead, as fast as he can, to prove to everyone who's still behind him that it's possible to keep going forward, too.
I don't think I'm very much like either of them. I don't know what I am, either. But I guess I bring them up because...I hope that you have the chance to meet someone like that. Maybe not someone who's like either of them in particular, but someone who can do the thing that they do, in their own ways.
Maybe that's a stupid wish. "I hope that you meet someone who changes your life for the better." But maybe it's something that people ought to wish each other more often, even if it's just to remind each other that people like that exist in the first place. So people remember sometimes to look for them at all.
this tag was so much better the first time >BC
I used to wish sometimes that I was more like him. Because I admired that in him, that he could do that for people, understand them that well and care so much and get them to exactly where they need to be to start doing it on their own.
I have another friend who's like a speedboat. He goes past you and you can't help but get caught up in his wake, and sometimes you even get towed along. It seems like he's always going on ahead, as fast as he can, to prove to everyone who's still behind him that it's possible to keep going forward, too.
I don't think I'm very much like either of them. I don't know what I am, either. But I guess I bring them up because...I hope that you have the chance to meet someone like that. Maybe not someone who's like either of them in particular, but someone who can do the thing that they do, in their own ways.
Maybe that's a stupid wish. "I hope that you meet someone who changes your life for the better." But maybe it's something that people ought to wish each other more often, even if it's just to remind each other that people like that exist in the first place. So people remember sometimes to look for them at all.
Thank you for telling me about your family.