Welcome to all that challenges, compels, transforms, and forms us into real human beings. There are no easy answers. Nothing is ever clear. Life is never what we expect it to be. As long as we try to side step the real issues we remain in perpetual confusion and agony of soul.
Truth is the only road to freedom.
I suspect it may have been the greatest conflict in his own life. But maybe he was one of the most read authors of this last century because he was so brutally honest about the self-serving nature of most of our life's choices. Our promises in 1962 to stick with them and see them through to victory, meant little more than that when we left them stranded and without hope by April 30 of '75. If you don't want the commitment, don't say the words. It had depth, the struggle was real and tragic.