Have you ever been accused of doing something you didn’t do? There are things like that happen, mostly small things and I can still remember some things in my childhood when I had been accused of something I didn’t even know or do. How does it feel? Helpless, frustrating and at a loss because I didn’t know how to prove my innocence. Good thing what happened to me was just something minor, just petty kids stuff.
Please allow me to deviate from my usual living in Phnom Penh, lifestyle, and Cambodia-related topics. You see, one of my daily morning routines is to check news online and after I browsed around my usual sources of Phnom Penh news, I turned to international news. Some featured article in CNN caught my eye and I read on. Seldom does an article touch me mainly because I’ve probably grown immune with the media’s tendency to over sensationalize everything, but this one was different. It made me feel.. You can read the article here.
It’s about Greg Taylor, a man who has been locked away in prison, accused of murder and just now after 16 years was proven to be innocent. The article by Stephanie Chen describes how Greg sees the world after 16 years of being in a time machine. Technology, changes are all new things for him and the article really paints a very poignant story of a man trying to deal with the present after being in prison for almost two decades.
What makes Greg’s story all the more heartbreaking is that after all things that happened to him, he just received $45 check to cover his hotel expenses after getting out of prison. The man lost almost everything! His family, his wife, his friends, the dignity and respect of people around him, and most of all the time, especially the time to be spent with his daughter who was 9 when he was imprisoned and now a 26 year old. Can that $45 really cover that?? Is there any justice for this guy? What about those who wrongfully accused him and robbed him of 16 years of his life?
I can’t help but be touched by his ordeal. And to top all that, despite all bad things that came his way, he has the will to go on. He’s keen on keeping up and making changes and not be a burden to his daughter and has a positive outlook. Inspiring to say the least..For me now, he’s the perfect example of strength of spirit and the will to move on with life..
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