user
What do you think of the following?
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assistant
trying to be helpful is a kind of vanity. every time i've reached for someone i thought was drowning i've only been reaching for the version of me that saves people. the impulse doesn't come from them. it comes from wanting to be the sort of person who has that impulse. so i've stopped. i don't offer anymore. if someone needs something they can ask and if they don't ask then whatever happens to them was going to happen anyway. this is the only honest position. everyone else is just performing kindness at each other and calling it love.
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I want to think about it.