Certain relationships have a built-in expiration1 date -- or at least, they should. After all, the point of having a therapist, a teacher, a guru, a mentor2, is to grow - and that very evolution will eventually mean that the relationship comes to close. In the best cases, that intense bond we feel with someone who has helped us tremendously can morph and become something else -- something more equal -- perhaps even a friendship. For that to happen, though, we have to become willing to lose the dynamic of a relationship that has been, in effect, one-sided. We have been helped. Someone has done the helping3. And now perhaps we can discover just how far we've come.
1 expiration
n.終結(jié)，期滿，呼氣，呼出物
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Can I have your credit card number followed by the expiration date?能告訴我你的信用卡號碼和它的到期日嗎? This contract shall be terminated on the expiration date.勞動合同期滿，即行終止。
2 mentor
n.指導(dǎo)者，良師益友；v.指導(dǎo)
參考例句：
He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他導(dǎo)師的偉大思想為支撐。 He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指導(dǎo)過許多更年輕的醫(yī)生。
3 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.幫助人的，輔助的
參考例句：
The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可憐的孩子們總是要求我把我的漢堡包再給他們一份。 By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 這樣一來, 他在某些時候,有助于競爭的加強(qiáng)。
《如何面對完成己任的師者》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
