A Different Blue

by Amy Harmon

Because despite all the good-intentioned urging to just be yourself, how was being yourself even possible if you didn’t know who the hell you were? Manny seemed to have known, but he was as susceptible as we all are to the influences of a world where people act without thought, live without consciousness, and judge without understanding.

I gave everything else away in the name of a greater good, but look how many people I hurt. Look at the ripple effects of thinking my life’s work was more important than the people in my life.”