Some things carry history you didn’t create and shouldn’t try to erase. Care isn’t the urge to rebuild someone into your preferred shape; it’s the discipline to let what’s worn remain, while making space for life to continue inside it. Support works when it inhabits what’s broken without correcting it, when it adds clarity without replacing character. Love steadies best when it accepts the past as load-bearing and builds forward without rewriting it.
Offer support today without trying to improve who someone already is.