Jerrod

"You're not perfect, Jerrod," they had said, "We know it's hard to hear, but it's the truth. You should seek out some help."

A few weeks later Jerrod returned. "I have sought help, and I have improved, have I not?"

"You have," they said, "but the times you do well must be because of the help you sought. So in a way you haven't really improved at all."

Jerrod wished he had asked, "Why can't you just accept that I've improved because I sought help?"

"Then that would mean we'd have to change our opinion of you," was their imagined reply.