Then he said to me, “I went to prison, but it wasn’t bad, it was only a year.”
ONLY A YEAR!? It sounded crazy from my perspective. But that’s where I stopped. This guy I was talking to had served with other guys who were serving decades and even life sentences behind bars.
It was just another reminder that so many of the human emotions we feel come from our perspective and how we look at the situation, not necessarily the raw data about the situation.
When you consider spending weeks or months with guys who are locked up for 50 years, yeah, I can see why he said “Only a year.”