🇵🇸🇮🇱 “By the way the people that are sympathizing with Palestine right now, literally rot in hell.”
“It’s a sticky situation subject, the innocent Palestinians, like there’s no such thing as a Palest- it’s complicated.”
Says Debra from NYC 🇺🇸🗽
No value judgment - old friends and new friends alike are precious. Just ruminating on how the levels of understanding vary, how relationships are built from different 'layers' of mental models + context-bits of personality, enough to form a whole person
When newer friends/relationships have fewer biases, less history to evaluate, less context. So they're more willing to reflect back a current belief of yours rather than reinforce some older beliefs
But sometimes people w a lot of history get accustomed to a specific version of another person and find it hard to continue to evolve to support the person's current self
e.g., you think someone's most distinctive quality is X and you can't let it go even when they change to Y
what I find really fascinating about long term friendships and relationships is that you actually see multiple mutations/versions of people across time - phases, curiosities, experimentation. Witnessing evolutions feels like depth