Just After Midnight

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

“People make mistakes all the time. That’s more or less the definition of a person: we’re a bunch of walking, talking mistake holders. When I make a mistake, if I was doing my best, I let myself off the hook.”

People will look right into the face of something they caused and tell you all day long how it wasn’t their fault. How they were only an innocent victim. No, you had to know all the circumstances and decide for yourself.

“I think very often in life we do something important for someone else for no better reason than that they need us to. And really, when you think about it . . . what more reason is needed?”

Amen!!!!

I wish we could be there in some meaningful way for somebody when they’re in pain. In a way that would actually solve something. But I feel like we’re pretty powerless to help each other a lot of the time.”