Please Don't Let People Get Too Far Gone

It might not seem like "your responsibility," but empathy and helping people around you is really the responsibility of everyone.

This topic can get confusing for people. Let me try to sketch it out for you.

I started thinking about it just recently again because I watched an EWU (Explore With Us) video about a case involving a man named Sonny Kim. He killed his sister (potentially half-sister), and the EWU Crew got interviews with his parents — who forgave him, ostensibly — and him. He’s in a mental facility as opposed to a standard, hardcore prison. The interview with him, which is audio-only, is at the back of this clip:

In that interview, the interviewers ask if he has any advice for families with troubled kids. He says, pretty simply:

“Don’t let people get too far gone.”