RE: 300 Word Short Story #+1 A story about a criminal family and a young man who lost everything.
As I live in a highly speed up world, I notice that I myself and others do not have the patience to decide as the man in your story. If you let time go by and act as he acted, you'll always see that the "bad person" has many other sides when present events take place. For instance a relative dies and the evil called is weeping and consoling at the same time his children. All men on earth are related to someone who love them. Even the most "terrible" ones.
Giving oneself the chance to witness kindness in a person I highly dislike and showing my own this can change the course.
You should check out Thubten Chodron (if I spell it correct) - a Buddhist nun - who talks to prisoners who murdered and did evil crimes. You'll find her on youtube. Unfortunately I couldn't find the particular speech when she talked about her work with prisoners and I give you the first video I watched of her (after that I almost watched them all):
I only watched a part of the video. The first thing I noticed was the beautiful smile. She seems to have a very good understanding. I checked some of her shorter videos. She is excellent for someone new to learning things. To me it's kind of too slow. Here is a little something from me:
Tomorrow I'm going to make you read my +1 post again and see it in a different light. Take note of the anime reference. Maybe @durzo would pick up what I'm going for.
I read the story again. With every reading I let another thought take my attention.
This one said: "yes, the story is indeed very good to transport the message, that the fool isn't so foolish. Accused of being naive he made something again out of his broken life after he hit rock bottom. He did it so gentle that no one noticed and underestimated what he already had accomplished."
Out of the story, in the real world, sooner or later - mostly sooner - this man would have been dragged into taking a side, speaking his mind, giving opinion to this or that. If I live with people they will "bother" me, ask me taking a side and wanting to punish me or dismiss me when I refuse to do so. Of course, me being this man of your story would withstand and in the long run it could be a life everybody dreams of.
The story is an ideal and it is told to strive for it.
This is one of my many interpretations - you might have another one.
the video: yes, you are not the first one who says that it is slow. Not for me. I love the slowness as much as I love the speed. Thanks for peeping in though.
Greg Braden I found some years ago. Interesting guy but maybe one is not ready yet to translate the language and puts him and people similar as him into the hocus-pocus corner. Very difficult to unite the disciplines because they behave like aliens to one another.
Try This and read the story again and you'll see everything in a different light.