my friends are all amazing. they inspire me and surprise me, and in that way remind me we all have the capacity to surprise. they are by turns hilarious, insightful, thoughtful, wise, stubborn, strong, witty, intelligent. fragile. i sometimes forget what it really means for every person to be a person, narrating their lives from inside their heads, and being by default the center of a universe of their own interpretation. we have a tendency, i feel, to assume the constancy and confidence of others since we can only see what they show us after all. everyone else is an actor secondary to your life, doing things you can't understand the motivation of, but which you can only interpret in relation to yourself. it seems fixed. but you are that for them, and they are that for you, which just goes to show how easily the roles can be flipped and are in fact the same.
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