Monica Padman

And if you have no connection to it whatsoever, then you also have all these ideas.

And I think that was for me, you know, before knowing you and like Eric.

I would have been skeptical too.

I definitely would have been one of those people.

But there have been so many experiences with you that are contradictory in a way that has made me change the way I think about people in a good way.

Like...

oh, it's really not black and white.

It's not that this person behaves in this way and they don't behave in this way and they're this and they're not this.

It's like, oh my God, like we really can be- We run the gamut.

All of the things.

It has totally changed my perspective on humans and for the better.

I mean, I'm so, I'm a better person because of it, definitely.

It's the idea that I could never,

Is the part that I don't believe in anymore.

Like, I don't believe for your relapse, when all that was going on, it was so hard for me to compute...

that that was you still uh-huh like how is this person who i know and love and trust and know wouldn't lie and you know is doing all of like it's very and disorienting it's very disorienting and it's but what i'm saying and and same with you know some stuff with some of our other friends like

It's helpful.

It's helpful to be reminded that we're all capable of all things at all times.

And it doesn't mean someone's good or bad.

And it definitely it's definitely possible to do things that you don't think you'd ever do.