Suppose you are an apple and want your friend, a banana, to be friends with your friend the grapefruit because said grapefruit is one of the gnarliest fruits around and you think banana would benefit greatly from a friendship with grapefruit. You introduce the two and constantly hound banana about whether or not he has befriended grapefruit yet and when he says no, you get all whiny and go, "Awwww man, but grapefruit is the gnarliest fruit around!" and then banana just gets super weirded out by you and thinks that grapefruit is probably a freak. And then grapefruit is sad because he really wanted to be friends with banana and was making good progress until you got your stupid apple self in the way and made a big mess of things.
The moral of the story is, you can never make two people become friends. You can only introduce them and hope that genuine connection occurs, because when it comes down to it, friendship is between two people, and that is that.
I think I'm starting to get why Jesus is so constantly fed up with me.
on that note, cs lewis once said that in a true friendship, it is great joy when your friend has other strong friendships because they are able to bring sides out in your friend that you cannot. (the four loves)
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