This is a dramatic story that had set its course with the loss of the subject’s Mother at the hands of one of Britain’s most notorious criminals of the last Century :”there was this awareness that said don’t worry this is all happening for a reason. You won’t know what it is yet but it will become apparent at some point.”
I cannot begin to tell you how important being seen is. And by being seen, I mean the seeing of the soul. The piece of us that lies beyond all stories and notions of identity. The piece of us that lies beyond all of our conclusions.
John does not speak of kindness as an idea, a virtue, or a sentiment. He lives and breathes it, even if imperfectly, because he knows it can be “the difference between life and death.” Kindness is the force that saved him, and allowed him to become himself.