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I Know It’s February. But This Is Not a Love Story.
<p>There are days I genuinely wonder</p><p>if it were possible for someone to enter another person’s skin,</p><p>to sit quietly inside their thoughts,</p><p>to feel the weight of their doubts before they even say them out loud,</p><p>you would probably try.</p><p><br/></p><p>I know how that sounds.</p><p><br/></p><p>But that is the closest language I have for the kind of care you carry.</p><p><br/></p><p>It is not confusing.</p><p><br/></p><p>You are present.</p><p>Not to judge.</p><p>But to stand there long enough until I sort myself out.</p><p><br/></p><p>And then there is that side of you</p><p>the one that gets unsettled.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not angry in the loud way.</p><p>But dissatisfied when I am shrinking.</p><p>Impatient when I am performing below my capacity.</p><p>Disturbed when I settle for less than who you know I can be.</p><p><br/></p><p>You don’t shout.</p><p>You insist.</p><p><br/></p><p>You keep pressing.</p><p>You keep pulling until the better version of me responds.</p><p><br/></p><p>And sometimes I resist it.</p><p><br/></p><p>But mostly, I sit back and think</p><p>what kind of friendship does this?</p><p><br/></p><p>The kind that refuses your average.</p><p><br/></p><p>I know those moments when you seem “angry.”</p><p>When your tone tightens.</p><p>When your words stretch longer than necessary.</p><p><br/></p><p>I see you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I see that it is not control.</p><p><br/></p><p>And here is what makes it even rarer:</p><p><br/></p><p>You don’t make me beg for it.</p><p>You give it.</p><p><br/></p><p>See now, ehn you have turned me into a writer.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because how else do I explain a friendship that refuses to be ordinary?</p><p><br/></p><p>This is not a love story.</p><p>It has never tried to be.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I will say this plainly:</p><p><br/></p><p>I do not pray to lose you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because I am incomplete without you.</p><p>But because intentional friendships are uncommon.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some friendships do not ask for romance.</p><p>They ask for responsibility.</p><p><br/></p><p>And that, perhaps, is rarer.</p>
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