I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough.
Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.
Forgetting is the mind's way of helping you heal. Helping you move on.
That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on
A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart.