New Year's "Hopes"

The "hopes' turned out to be the trigger point, the avalanche that caused the cascading events beyond repair. And I felt elated, relieved, cathartic. I put them to a test and they responded in failure. They proved to me that who they really were, beyond any shadow of a doubt, despite a blizzard of high-sounding and wounded words. They made it clear that they wanted to be left alone with their quiet lives of desperation and their acceptance of the status quo and the "que sera sera" and that Vietnam is so far away and no longer a concern of theirs because they don't live there anymore. The case they presented was so logical that I puked all over myself after reading the exposition of their views.