Loss of Nora

It is disappointment that I feel. it is the prophetic "i told you so" in my stomach.

With parents like mine, there is never the absence of doubt, for better or for worse.

But I had to go ahead and do what's right despite doubt. One still must treat a friend as a friend, not just for the sake of the friend or the friendship, but for the solemn faith and commitment of what friendship essentially is.

Yes, it's laughable to the cynics. I would sacrifice -- and have sacrificed -- for a principle.

But if I give up on that principle, that ideal, then what possibility be still hope for from friendship might die, extinct.

It is up to people like me (and you) to do the right thing, at our cost, yes, to keep the light of love and humanity alive.

I will not give in to jadedness.