Bitter sweet irony

Today, I had a conversation with a friend, that was almost a perfect mirror image of a previous conversation I had quite sometime ago with a different friend. Only this time, it was me giving the unwanted truth, that was difficult to hear. Its a sickening sort of feeling that settled in my soul----if only because I had not so long ago sat on the other side, and I can so vividly recall exactly what that was like. Now I inflicted that same experience on someone else. Brutal.