Humphrey looked at his friend, remembering the carefree man he met in a waiting room of the Greenstone Adventure Society. Jason’s smile was still there, but there was a heaviness to it. The smile was genuine, but Humphrey wondered if Jason would ever regain the lightness of the past. There was too much weight on him now for that. “We all take on burdens as we go through life,” Jason said. “It gets heavier for everyone.”
