Friday, April 10, 2009

There are some people in this world that are the purest representation of innocence. To witness their heart breaking is uncomfortable and makes us cringe in ways we did not know existed. It makes us feel as though there is something wrong with the very fabric of time and space, that this creature should have to have an expression filled with such sorrow. It might be someone we know, or a stranger who we can tell is in distress and shouldn't be.

The truth is horrible things happen to good people.

It is this knowledge that makes us want to help those in distress, naturally, it should be our human condition to be made to take action when another is unhappy. This is what should be.
But some things are not human, and even humans can be inhuman. And what we thought should happen doesn't always, whether or not someone deserves it.

Horrible things happen to good people. Sometimes it is simply because they don't deserve it. It has always been my belief that bad things happen to good people because they can recover from these events and build upon them. It takes character and strength to come out of the depths of despair and good people are often the only ones strong enough to accomplish it.

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