[Thor thinks the context is important, but he won't needle for information. He cares, but he's not the sort to pry. If he needs to know, he'll find out soon enough.]

It is difficult to be like anyone when all you do is search for differences. No two people are the same, you know that as well as I. [He gives him a gentle nudge.] Things rarely come as easily as they go, for that matter. It takes patience, and it comes and goes, but it happens.

[Of course, he relates a situation like that to trying to weave his brother back into his life.]