Lumière des Étoiles

A barn rasing:  a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.

i think that very last line is what a LOT more people need to fully digest. there’s this romance around friendship that it should be perfect and smooth and unproblematic at all times but that isn’t what being a friend is. that isn’t what a normal connection with another human being is. sometimes you NEED to do things that might not end well for you personally, in order to be a friend to your friend. sometimes you’ve got to be willing to face serious consequences to help, to save your friend’s life in the way they need saving at that moment.