We help people here, right?

Not just the ones we sympathize with, understand, or like?

But also the ones whose behavior we don't understand, can't imagine, wouldn't want around us?

We help people here, right?

Not just the ones who take our advice and quickly change for the better?

But also the ones who resist, who remain enmeshed in whatever brought them here, for years at a time?

We help people here, right?

Not just the ones for whom the trauma is all in the past, and now it's just a matter of learning to heal?

But also the ones who keep getting buffeted by crisis after crisis, long past our own capacity for patience, much less theirs?

I really hope we do.