# True Friends Support You Through Good News and Bad

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2090294412718838087
- Source account: [@newstart_2024](https://x.com/newstart_2024)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:22
- Published: 2026-08-20
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad) Yeah. Because if you're starting to put your life together and you have friends that object, those are not friends. Those are just people you know. They're not friends, because a friend is someone...

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=12) This is one of the hallmarks of a friend. Here's two hallmarks.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=14) Mm-hmm. A friend is someone you can tell bad news to, and they won't tell you why you're an idiot, and they won't interfere with your suffering.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=21) They'll just listen. They'll just listen and maybe they'll suffer along with you.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=24) Mm. Okay, so you can tell bad news to them, and they won't tell you some worse thing that happened to them. They'll listen.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=30) Mm. And they'll suffer along with you. But a friend is also someone you can tell good news to, and the friend will say, "Wow, in this veil of tears, something good happened to you.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=39) Great, man." Congrats. "I'm wonderful. It's rare. It's unlikely. Good for you.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=44) I hope 10 more things like that hap-" And they're not envious, and they're not jealous, and they're not one-upping you.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=48) And if you're trying to get your life together, it's actually, if you're trying to get your life together and your friends get in the way, that's actually real useful for you because you've now identified who your friends aren't.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=59) Mm. And you might think, "Well, I can't give them up." It's like, oh, yes you can.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=62) And not only can you, you should, and it would be better for them. Because if they're aiming down and they want you going down with them, there's nothing good about what's happening to them, and there's certainly nothing good about that for you.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=75) Yeah, they're not gonna, and then they're gonna learn, "Wow, if I, uh, I'm gonna lose friends if I continue in these directions."

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AXk3z3a66pUS/en/true-friends-support-you-through-good-news-and-bad?t=80) Yeah. Yeah. Exactly, exactly.