SL's sick. I escorted her home. “Girlfriends are more attractive when they are venerable”, I thought to myself. There is little reason to doubt the maturity of one when she demonstrates signs of weakness. I remember carol said something like that before. Intead, it might be a sign of courage to be not afraid to expose one’s weakness. Paul turned his defects into virtues, and his weakness became his strength.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. (2 Cor. 11:30)
Three times I besought the Lord about this [the 'thorn in the flesh'], that it should leave me; but he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' (2 Cor. 12: 8-9)
I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor. 12: 9-10)