The real bite here lies in reversing our usual comfort—we tend to *offer* our best selves in happy moments, when being generous costs us nothing. Euripides catches something harder: true friendship lives in the willingness to show up when it's inconvenient, when your friend's crisis demands your time or depletes your own reserves. When a colleague loses a parent and you sit with them at the funeral instead of scrolling through your phone, or when you listen to the same worry a friend has voiced a dozen times without showing impatience—that's where friendship proves itself. The quote asks us to examine whether we're fair-weather companions or the sort of person someone can actually lean on.