Who holds me up when everyone leans on me?

You can take almost anyone and make them better. That is real, not flattery. But somewhere along the way you decided this meant you needed no one yourself — and you never tested that decision, you just started living inside it. The people around you don't withhold support because they're cruel. They withhold it because you've never asked, never shown the strain, never made it their job to notice. You trained them to lean on you, not to look at you. This isn't about finding some mentor out in the world. It's about the people already in the room — your pod, your peers, maybe one person above you — and whether you've ever given them anything real to work with.