In one lifetime, one may grow to apprehend and admire the compassion of a purely altruistic empath, but only an entity of many lifetimes can appreciate it's fleeting and infrequent beauty, as the temptations of apathy and acquiescence prove increasingly enervating an enemy. The most salubrious souls to hold close are those that both commune with your darkest despondency and cynicism but also reciprocally inspirit and conjunctly revel in your most idyllic of moments.