Fair weather friends are those who're only with you through things both of you can handle. You'll never fight, you'll never hate each other, never get stuck on one another's shoulders, bawling your eyes out.
Stormy weather friends aren't like that. These are people that you don't walk with, or maybe don't know your favorite Van Gogh painting, and brand of sour cream. They may not remember your middle name, or exactly which month your birthday was in. These are the acquaintances you didn't know you had; the free hug you accidentally found: they're the miraculous part of humanity that peels out of the walls and into your crisis. Call them self-punishing, but we all have them, and we all know that we need them eventually. Stormy, rainy, wet, awful weather friends are the ones who save us the most.
Stormy weather friends aren't like that. These are people that you don't walk with, or maybe don't know your favorite Van Gogh painting, and brand of sour cream. They may not remember your middle name, or exactly which month your birthday was in. These are the acquaintances you didn't know you had; the free hug you accidentally found: they're the miraculous part of humanity that peels out of the walls and into your crisis. Call them self-punishing, but we all have them, and we all know that we need them eventually. Stormy, rainy, wet, awful weather friends are the ones who save us the most.
