To be good is to live between idealism and romanticism—believing in universal values while cherishing their personal embodiment. Yet, reality offers little affirmation.
The world seldom rewards virtue, and goodness feels like a stubborn delusion in a landscape of indifference.
Still, we persist, reshaping people and institutions toward our imagined order: we call this progress. We seek loyalty, justice, and integrity, though we often meet opportunism and betrayal. This striving is not naïveté—it is defiance.
To be "good" is to love a brutal reality that resists goodness, and still choose to believe in its possibility.