Topic # 232 - Is there a situation where it's appropriate to be unkind?
She tried to kill herself.
I don’t… know if she’s gone out of her way since then to leave out that detail about the time spent on New Caprica, but she did.
And maybe it was cruel, but it was unavoidable, and I’m not sorry.
I introduced Kacey into the living arrangement because I had no other choice. I couldn’t get through to her on my own - God knows I tried - but Kacey was much better at it than I was. Unintentionally better, with fewer words, sometimes with no words at all, just a look, a smile or a laugh. That’s it. But it was enough.
There wasn’t any time to live so selfishly or recklessly when she had Kacey around: another life dependent on her for just about everything you could imagine, yet somehow that little girl managed to give Kara's own life brand new meaning.
I know it hurt when it was taken away, when the lie surfaced. It had to. But she was still alive to feel that pain.
In this context, maybe being ‘unkind’ wasn’t appropriate, but what it was was completely necessary. That was my opinion then, and that’s my opinion now.
I don’t… know if she’s gone out of her way since then to leave out that detail about the time spent on New Caprica, but she did.
And maybe it was cruel, but it was unavoidable, and I’m not sorry.
I introduced Kacey into the living arrangement because I had no other choice. I couldn’t get through to her on my own - God knows I tried - but Kacey was much better at it than I was. Unintentionally better, with fewer words, sometimes with no words at all, just a look, a smile or a laugh. That’s it. But it was enough.
There wasn’t any time to live so selfishly or recklessly when she had Kacey around: another life dependent on her for just about everything you could imagine, yet somehow that little girl managed to give Kara's own life brand new meaning.
I know it hurt when it was taken away, when the lie surfaced. It had to. But she was still alive to feel that pain.
In this context, maybe being ‘unkind’ wasn’t appropriate, but what it was was completely necessary. That was my opinion then, and that’s my opinion now.