.... Sometimes the best friends (or best Ts) aren't the ones who coddle/empathize/sympathize and flood us with soft words and soft actions......but the ones who are hard on us, who push us, who demand we rise up and get our a$$es in gear and be authentic, find and use our real voices.....the ones who do NOT tiptoe around our faults, weaknesses, tender spots, wounds, but confront us and help us confront ourselves......