The car industry really loves the use of salt. It makes sure cars rust at an astonishing rate.

Interesting. Then has a person really realised fundamental interconnection and interdependance?

As if there is a choice between indiviual imposition and interdependance within right view. Right view doesn't entertain the idea that the individual has priority over the collective, becuase right view is that the individual really doesn't exist as a seperate entity. That would be a selfish individualist point of view, rather than no self or selfless.

In much the same way that a leaf is part of the whole tree. Or an acorn is even seperate from the tree it fell from, because these thing are not things at all but rather dynamic happenings. A fundalmatally different view of matter in that, no thing is static but rather flowing from state to state. Even mountains, and universes change over time and are subject to interaction and interconection.

Buddhism at it's core extoles the realisation of fundamental interconnection and inderdependance.

Probably the best pointer to the nature of karma, which is also collective. Global warming is probably one of the better examples of collective action and the outcome of that. (karma) International and intergenerational.

He's really not going to be happy that he's been outed in a way, and that seems to be the case. But hay, he did what he did, so having everything brought out into the open is just the natural concequence of his actions. I can't help thinking there's actually been some mixed motives with him. In a way it could have been better to tread gently and give things time to resolve. Now it's all like an episode of heartstopper. Sorry this is your early and somewhat formative experience of love. Many of us have experiences of tentative and unrequited love. Being gay definetly ads another layer of complexity. Time to reset, be proud of how you've conducted yourself and start again. Big hug from all the Boys. You got this.