What Shapes Us

What shapes us are conditions that have arisen in our lives that effectively shape our perception of things, creating all angles of view, from hard left all the way through the vagaries in the middle to hard right, coupled with reliable genetics. Our countenance is oftentimes made hard, even mean. But beneath that might lay intense compassion and empathy, especially toward tribal and kindred victims of like damage, self inflicted or not, creating hope, though there is no clue that there may be something even better in the offing. Indeed, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary.