If history and literature and human examples are frauds, if the media cannot be trusted, if our high-profile role models prove to be imperfect humans like the rest of us, how do we truly learn that greatest, most important lesson in life? How do we throw down our guard and our cynicism and open up to the person seated next to us? How do we fight the urge to judge and embrace the discomfort of caring for someone other than ourselves? And how do we forge into the future, torch burning brightly for our children and their children to follow? Is it easier to give into the morass we’ve always regarded as “normal?” Perhaps.
But still....
