The first person from our group ET’d today. It was a big blow for me, and I feel for him. I was looking forward to getting to know him better, and I think we would have become very good friends. There are probably only ever a few people in stage like that, so it sucks to lose one of them.
But as rough as I feel right now, I’m sure he’s in much worse shape. The feelings of failure, shame, guilt, and just the social pressure not to leave are huge, so he probably feels pretty badly about himself right now, which is too bad. I feel like he should be proud that he made it two months in a country that is supposed to be one of the hardest places to do a Peace Corps service. So anyway, here’s to you. By far most people in the United States will not have the courage to do what you did, and that makes you strong for trying, not weak for failing.
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