Rant: On Meddling

Basically, giving me advice about my life, to be anything more than someone spouting off, must be rooted in a particular (very deep) level of friendship. It must not be rooted in an elevated conception of one's self (I never know if I spell that correctly--is it "oneself"?). And it must always be done nicely and not preachingly. This just makes me think of Rachel Lynde, the very definition of meddlesome. This makes me ever so thankful, too, for Robinson, and his Oakeshottian conception of friendship as never seeking to change the other. While that, too, is an extreme, I think, it sure is a nicer extreme to be around than meddlesomeness.