A brother guides someone through forgiving himself for his imperfect efforts with a young person who isn't his biological son. The real driver isn't helping, it's avoiding the regret of not doing enough. He resolves to leave nothing undone.
Remember that night during the execution when, uh, your brother walked you through that forgiveness, right?
Yeah.
What, what was the shift there for you?
Relief, brother. The weight of the world was off my shoulders, in my feeling. I mean, I know it wasn't the weight of the world, but to me it was incredible.
Do you think that there's maybe a part of you, even if it's hard for you to admit, that after everything you've invested in this kid, that a part of you still fights because you don't want to feel regret? Like you could have done something but didn't.
Amen. Yeah. And I haven't done— I haven't done it perfectly at all. I mean, I just— again, I didn't know. I didn't know how to do it until now. So yeah, I mean, I don't— I don't want to regret anything.
I want every stone unturned because that's the type of man you are. Most guys would have never put up with this with a boy that wasn't their son, but you did it because you're an honorable man, because you have character, and because that's the kind of man that you are. You show up and you do the thing, you do the right thing. You don't always do it the right way, but you do the right thing.
Okay.
Because that's who you are.
Yeah.
So it would make sense as to why it's like, what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? Attempting to come up with solutions and plans and all this, because ultimately I just want to make sure that I've done everything I could to set them up for success.
Yeah. Yeah.
