People will see loyalty and devotion in your friend group & tell you you’re lucky. But its not luck, it’s a result of several hard conversations, sacrifices, mercy, humility, & the ongoing pursuit to see goodness in the other & ourself. Love is tested by fire, not the fun stuff.
If you keep treating the ones you care about like strangers, you can’t get angry at them when they do the same or seemingly place others in high esteem than you eventually. We get shocked when someone becomes distant when deep down, we know why. Human nature is vile & vain.
You can’t teach umuntu umukulu how they’re supposed to love you. They know what they’re supposed to do and if they’re not doing it ninshi they just don’t want