Love Is Something You Protect
An angel does good because it is in an angel’s nature; there is no struggle in it, no cost, no choice.
Arthur did good against the grain of a whole lifetime, at the very end, when he had every excuse to be bitter and grasping and afraid, and he chose instead to be generous, to a stranger, for no reward he would live to enjoy.
That is not the goodness of an angel.
It is the harder, rarer goodness of a human being who decides, late and at great cost, to become better than he has been.
I have come to think that kind of goodness is the most hopeful thing in the world, because unlike an angel’s, it is a thing any of us might still choose.
You Might Also Like
My Husband Threw Me Out in My Wedding Dress and Told Me I’d Come Crawling Back Without His Money — He Never Learned the Answer to the Only Question That Mattered Until He Walked Into My Lobby Begging the CEO of the Fund That Held His Company
Daily Gossips
Archaeologists Baffled By A 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In Scotland With Its Brain Scooped Out And Its Bones Turned Into Tools
Daily Gossips
My Son Walked Across the Graduation Stage Wearing a Bright Red Dress While Hundreds of People Laughed. I Was the Only Person in the Auditorium Who Knew Why.
Daily Gossips
My Husband Left Me for Dead to Collect the Insurance — the One Person I’d Wronged Was the One Who Came For Me
Daily Gossips