I thought about your comment for a few days, especially the line “You are fighting ghosts.”
That’s probably more true for prisoners than most. To be locked in a cell for the rest of your life, wondering, ruminating, if things could have been different...
How lucky the rest of us are to merely ruminate over a lost love, or from upsetting a friend.
For prisoners, their mistake was serious. It’s not just in their heads. They’re haunted.
I thought about your comment for a few days, especially the line “You are fighting ghosts.”
That’s probably more true for prisoners than most. To be locked in a cell for the rest of your life, wondering, ruminating, if things could have been different...
How lucky the rest of us are to merely ruminate over a lost love, or from upsetting a friend.
For prisoners, their mistake was serious. It’s not just in their heads. They’re haunted.