We cannot help everyone. No matter how loving and patient and compassionate we might be, it isn’t going to work with everyone. That isn’t a failing in us, or in them, it’s just how it is. This has been hard for me to accept: that I can support and help Fran in all the ways I do, and connect meaningfully with others in different ways, yet fail utterly with others, including people I care about very much. Sometimes we need to accept that we cannot be there for everybody. Sometimes we need to recognise the limits of “be who you are, do what you can.”
I do not personally feel there is any shame in this.
I don’t know how and why it works for me and Fran. It is certainly not because of anything special in me. It is simply how it is.
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