An Anonymous Girl

by Greer Hendricks

We all have reasons for our actions. Even if we hide the reason from those who think they know us best. Even if the reasons are so deeply buried we can’t recognize them ourselves.

I don’t fear strangers, though. I’ve learned more harm can come from familiar faces.

When money and morality intersect, the results can illuminate intriguing truths about human character. People are motivated to break their moral compasses for a variety of primal reasons: survival, hate, love, envy, passion. And money.

And sometimes the people who seem the most accomplished and together are the ones who can hurt you the deepest.

Every lifetime contains pivot points—sometimes flukes of destiny, sometimes seemingly preordained—that shape and eventually cement one’s path.

every lifetime, there are pivot points that shape and eventually cement one’s path.

Uncertainty is an excruciating state in which to exist. A moral question that never appeared in my study continues to claim prominence in my mind: Is it possible to look someone you love in the eye and tell a lie without experiencing remorse?

We all have reasons for our judgments, even if those reasons are so deeply buried we don’t recognize them ourselves.