the_bigshow Prompt 2.11 Section 4D - Gray Areas
Gray areas.
Sometimes, as a child, you grow up seeing certain things (or everything) in terms of black and white. However, once you're an adult, all of that changes. The black and white begin to shift together, inch by inch, until they overlap or blend together entirely. Up until four years ago, I was one of the few adults that still saw most things in black and white.
I quickly learned that the world we live in is anything but. Being a homicide detective tends to shake up your view of the world, and of the people you meet. They call us cynics, because they don't want to lose their naive, if ill-informed view of the world around them. Which reminds me of a quote by George Bernard Shaw. "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it."
The difference between a rookie and a seasoned detective, I think, is that rookies are bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and see everything black and white. Either you broke the law or you didn't. Killed that person or didn't. But one day it hits you. Sometimes in the form of a difficult case, where the law isn't so clear. Where the lines are blurred and you suddenly find that you don't know what's right in this case.
That's the problem with the gray area - nothing's finite, and eventually? It breaks you down.
Sometimes, as a child, you grow up seeing certain things (or everything) in terms of black and white. However, once you're an adult, all of that changes. The black and white begin to shift together, inch by inch, until they overlap or blend together entirely. Up until four years ago, I was one of the few adults that still saw most things in black and white.
I quickly learned that the world we live in is anything but. Being a homicide detective tends to shake up your view of the world, and of the people you meet. They call us cynics, because they don't want to lose their naive, if ill-informed view of the world around them. Which reminds me of a quote by George Bernard Shaw. "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it."
The difference between a rookie and a seasoned detective, I think, is that rookies are bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and see everything black and white. Either you broke the law or you didn't. Killed that person or didn't. But one day it hits you. Sometimes in the form of a difficult case, where the law isn't so clear. Where the lines are blurred and you suddenly find that you don't know what's right in this case.
That's the problem with the gray area - nothing's finite, and eventually? It breaks you down.