and here's why that's a good thing. Fairytales teach us that people can be compartmentalised. One is either good or bad, heroic or cowardly, and with these traits, stereotypes have been attached. We have the notion that these are distinct characteristics impressed upon us from a young age, but the reality is, there are overlaps. Every life is a pile of good things and bad things; the good doesn't always make up for the bad, but the bad doesn't always dilute the good things, o

~ This is the ideology that in order to become pure gold, the original gold-bearing ore must go through the tempering process of fire;...