
So, some translation is in order. When a programmer says “can’t be done”, it nearly always means “there’s no way to do that given what I understand intuitively as the actual operating constraints that I have to deal with working here, and it’s so hard to explain all of that to you that my head is going to explode. Go. Away.”
People having to face, often out of a life threatening necessity, what it is to be a true friend, and then without hesitation actively engage it. Or, what it is to support another fully and without condition. Or, perhaps it’s coming face to face with the truth of just how much pain one human being can endur…