I bet a bunch of us have experienced times in our life where we went through something hard and all the people that we thought were our friends like

Disappear and you're like, oh, wow, where was everyone?

I actually had a girlfriend who was just telling me about this

when her dad passed away.

She was really surprised at which friends showed up and which friends sort of disappeared after the first

couple weeks. She's like, you know, it's the same as having a baby. She's like, you know,

there were people who showed up for the first week and then I've never heard from them again.

And I don't think that it's that people are bad people.

I think it's that not everybody knows how to show up when times are hard. And I think those of us who have gone through hard

seasons we're extra good at showing up because we just do what we wish someone

would have done for us in those moments.

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