If you don’t know someone—I mean really know them in the sense that you’ve made some emotional connection with them, gone out drinking with them, had that mystical one-night stand with them, sat on a back porch playing guitar with them, even if only once—if you haven’t warmed your cold hands on another person’s soul, can you really care what happens to them? If you have looked, however quickly, into a person’s heart and tried to understand them, how can you possibly turn away when that person is in pain? (more…)
