Conflicted. I'm still trying to figure things out, particularly what the subject of conflict is. I don't know why I don't know.
I suppose I know.
What weighs more: fighting for what you know to be true, your belief, your reality -- or your responsibility for another person's feelings, particularly as they fight for their truth, their belief, their reality?
The conflict is borne of the fact that your truths don't match.
It's not so bad, if you were only friends. Friends disagree all the time about what they want and don't want in their lives. But what if your life is his life, and vice versa?
In preserving someone because they are fragile, you expose your own vulnerability. Then you realize that you, too, need saving.
Because it could actually be true: giving someone life can lead to your own (slow) death.
