It just hit me — at this very moment — that if you’re searching for your genuine self, it helps to have someone close to you around. Preferably someone who really gets you.

I suppose that seems counterintuitive; it makes more sense perhaps to find oneself while one is alone. But I find that who I am isn’t what I am like apart from everyone else. In fact, it’s easy to be decent or noble, maybe even almost perfect, when no one else is around — when there’s no one to challenge or annoy me or especially push all my wrong buttons.

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