Slap in the face

Back from the whirlwind Taiwan Trip to a world that I only just learnt is not full of people who are good-until-proven.

Perhaps I have been wrong my whole life.

Perhaps I have been too sheltered and protected.

Maybe I'm still too young.

Maybe I had too much faith.

All the respect, and love, care, and concern slipped down into a deep deep valley almost never to be recovered.

I stood by you even when everyone said not to trust or believe you. They warned me saying i would have to learn it the hard way. I never once doubted what they said, for they said it out of love but i never once doubted you either, and I stood by you out of love as well.

I still do.

Although my heart aches and my eyes are sore.

I just hope things work out and the people i love don't get hurt because of me.

I've been praying, under my breath...

And this verse constantly rings in my mind...

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves;
so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves."
Matthew 10:16

We might not be shrewd. But we're definitely innocent.