My heart beat wildly as I stared at my phone screen. I re-read the message from my friend, Jane. Someone had upset her by sharing her personal news: she had been refused by her dream school. Jane had shared the sad news with only a few people. She didn't know who let the word out, but she was really hurt and disappointed.
I felt so bad. I knew how the news had gotten out because I had been the one to tell someone beyond her closest friends. Honestly, I hadn't realized she meant to keep it so close to only a few in the first place, but at the same time I'd known it wasn't a good idea when I started to tell it to someone else.
Did she really not know it was me? It would have been easy to admit what I had done and apologize if her message put the blame, specifically, on me. But it read as though it had been copied and sent to several people. Once again ignoring the right choice, I chose the coward's (懦夫) way out instead.
"I'm so sorry for what happened to you," I typed. "How awful that your confidence was broken!"
I hoped that would work. Her reply came back within seconds: "Thank you. "
"It would be okay for me to remain anonymous (匿名), wouldn't it?" I thought to myself.
But, deep down, I knew I'd been the one to break faith and hurt her. I was ashamed, not only of my original action, but also because I'd taken a further step in the wrong direction by covering it up.
I felt painful at church on Sunday, sitting in silence all the time. Later, the speaker asked us to examine ourselves and see if anything stood in the way of holding on to our faith, and if so, not to let anything stop us until we cleared it away. Chancing it all — whatever we feared, whatever held us back — would be worth it to make it right.
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I knew what stood between me and the right thing: my image.
The next day, I went straight to Jane.
