My friends (the ones I've chosen, anyway, not necessarily including some who may be "choosing" me) mostly seem like really great people. For the most part, I keep thinking I may be underestimating them because they have strengths and abilities that I don't even know about yet.

Once in a great while I'll see a friend do something that seems weird to me and suggests an upset in progress -- say, telling me I don't understand them, probably never will, and to stop trying. On those occasions, I've typically learned a lot by trying to imagine what might be going on for them, and how much anything like that ever goes on for me too.

If I ever have a day when a lot of people seem to be out to get me (or at least to get in my way), I may go on thinking for a while that that must be something about them. Eventually, though, I do usually get around to looking at what part of that might be coming from me.

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All the world's mad save thee and me -- and sometimes I even wonder about thee.