How To Know Who You’re Real Friends Are
00:00:00.000 | I could do the worst thing in the world and it could be exposed to the world.
00:00:02.920 | And I know I got people in my life that they would walk through that with me.
00:00:05.860 | They would still be associated with me.
00:00:07.160 | How was that for you?
00:00:08.020 | It was hard for a long time.
00:00:09.800 | And if you work at what's hard for a long time, you can't change the way you hold it.
00:00:14.240 | You find out what you're worth to people when you can offer them nothing.
00:00:17.100 | That's a dangerous place to be.
00:00:18.840 | You know, you don't want to get there to have to realize who your friends are.
00:00:21.660 | First of all, I had a lot of people stick by me.
00:00:23.800 | But in those moments, it's not the number of people, it's who.
00:00:26.520 | But I'll tell you what freed me.
00:00:27.600 | Trying to understand.
00:00:28.720 | I thought there would come a day when I was going to understand why somebody responded.
00:00:32.920 | But I just could never understand it.
00:00:34.520 | And then I got to a point where I was like, I don't understand it anymore.
00:00:37.400 | I accept it.
00:00:38.120 | And it was freeing because I can't understand.
00:00:39.760 | There's a way where you can look at people leaving your life as the biggest blessing.
00:00:43.180 | Even if you're the cause of it because it created space for something new.