Redemption

... Is a lofty ideal, sought after by those who, for one reason or another, believe that in some karmic way, their prior actions, or inactions, are so damning that they must seek to make recompense with the world, a god, or themselves.

Some people search for their entire lives and never find it. Some people make empty gestures which they and others see as somehow excusing appalling behavior or grievous mistakes.

In my own case... My world and my deity are almost one and the same, and they'd have made much more noise if they didn't plan on overlooking my errors. That doesn't mean I can forgive myself, before I sate this desire to at least make a bid to do the right thing.

I've spent the last two weeks sifting through every media source I can find, compiling, condensing, listing. The simple answer is that in a world where everyone is connected, the loss of 6,000 people affects far more, numbering more like tens of thousands of people whose lives have been altered for the worse. These are the people I've put in danger, the people I've weakened, who have less resolve than they did before to fight the silvery voice of darkness that fills the city.

Those are the people I need to help and save. And they may never thank me, never believe me to have redeemed myself. But I owe it to them to keep them in the light, and not allow them to slide into darkness like that I created one fateful evening.

-Daniel