“…who but are a few of the beaten and butchered and betrayed
and martyred children of the earth,”
~ William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
(Neil Young, The Needle and the Damage Done)
Until you know a person’s story you do not know a person at
all. For we all are the sum of our stories, all that has brought us to this
present moment in time. Each life is too complex and to beautiful for any of us
to think we can be the judge of it. We can however love all the people and
their life stories we encounter along our shared journey. And, loving
sometimes, often, means resisting the desires to want to fix someone and may
mean just letting them go as hard and as painful as that may be.
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