The friends you make when you’re 16, 17, or 20 have a certain quality, a kind of specialness that life doesn’t give you again.
You’ll have other friendships, some even deeper or more accomplished, but someone who witnessed you when you could still be anything… that doesn’t come back.
Children sense everything, when we lie to them, we don’t protect them.
Every lie teaches them to silence their inner voice and not to trust their own intuition.
Sometimes it’s hard for parents to speak the full truth, but doing so nurtures strong humans, connected to the divine within themselves.