We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to... be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.
So it needs saying from the outset that it's always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.
If anyone even asked what God would think about that, she always replied: "I don't think we agree about everything, but l have a feeling He knows I'm doing the best I can. And I think maybe He knows I work for Him, because I try to help people." If anyone asked her to sum up her view of the world, she always quoted Martin Luther: "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Our hearts are bars of soap that we keep losing hold of; the moment we relax, they drift off and fall in love and get broken, all in the wink of an eye.