the thing about Aaron having to trot out the Gordon stuff every time someone is struggling is like-
when he first started talking about it he know that every person he told would be hurt by it. Chas, Paddy, Cain, even Robert. the price of lifting his burden was putting it on the people who love him. they might see it as sharing, but it still feels like you’re harming them.
so to get to experience the opposite? to know that the worst thing that happened to you, the thing that made you feel broken and alienated, can actually help someone else, even lift their burden a little bit? putting aside any other issues I have with it, that is such a gift.










